What's enough evidence?

[RightWingGirl]

A very interesting question....I think that I would begin to consider Evolution if intelligent man could create what random chance and natural selection are supposed to be created. If man could create a living, breathing animal from only primordial slime.

 

[Nightson]

A very interesting question....I think that I would begin to consider Evolution if intelligent man could create what random chance and natural selection are supposed to be created. If man could create a living, breathing animal from only primordial slime.

don't you think that's a bit of a high standard?

But to address that, I don't think that woukld be very convincing evidence for me, evolution says that billions of years, combined with mutation and natural selection produced an animal, but science accomplishing such a feat would use none of those. It'd be an amazing discovery and wonderful technology, but I don't think it would make good evidence for evolution. In addition, it seems odd to base your acceptance of a possible natural law on human inventiveness.

Can you think of any evidence that might make you consider evolution that could (theoretically) be present now?

 

[michabo]

A very interesting question....I think that I would begin to consider Evolution if intelligent man could create what random chance and natural selection are supposed to be created. If man could create a living, breathing animal from only primordial slime.

Given a few billion years, you mean.

That does make your requirement a bit laughable.

If we managed to create life in the lab, what will that prove? It just proves that we can create life, but says nothing about how life actually arose in the past. And if we can do it in our lifetimes in a lab, it will definately not be how life arose in the past.

 

[Elduran]

A very interesting question....I think that I would begin to consider Evolution if intelligent man could create what random chance and natural selection are supposed to be created. If man could create a living, breathing animal from only primordial slime.

I'm willing to bet that if that ever happened you would be one of the first to say "see, it took intelligence to do that" and shift the goalposts even further.

 

[Tomk80]

A very interesting question....I think that I would begin to consider Evolution if intelligent man could create what random chance and natural selection are supposed to be created. If man could create a living, breathing animal from only primordial slime.

But we already use evolution in computerprograms to do the programming for us if the task becomes too difficult for us to solve (genetic algorithms). So why would you think that we would actually be able to do what evolution/abiogenesis have done.

 

[Nightson]

*bump*

For RWG, or any other creationists who are interested.