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[random_guy]

I'm still researching evolution myself. At school how the earth was created was part of the teaching on evolution. In another discussion someone said evolution has no theory on how the world was created. So I started a thread asking about evolution and what it was exactly. I was given a couple of website links which i am still going through (I don't like reading articles on the net very much so it is slow going). I am hapy as a christian for evolution to be taught as a theory. Why a theory? From all that I currently understand is that there is still missing links which untill found mean it can only be a theory. It will not be proven untill those links are found and it can be scientifically proven. (scientific proof is that it can be done again and again with the same results) Of course if evolution has no theory on the origins of life then the supporters of evolution should get that message out there and then there would be no more creation vs evolution debates as the two could go hand in hand easily then.

Just to clarify some more, theories are about as good as you can get. Theories aren't promoted to facts, nor are they "proven" in the sense of being 100% correct. That's why we still have Germ Theory, Atomic Theory, and Theory of Special Relativity.

Evolution is both a fact and a theory. It's a fact that allele frequencies change over time in a gene pool (actual definition of evolution) and the ToE explains that this is caused by natural selection and mutation.

I understand part of the problem so many people are confused about what the ToE actually says. I see it all the time in newspapers.

No I wasn't aware of that. I know there were alot of different problems they had. One of them being corruption which also caused many problems.

Yeah, USSR had a lot of problems. However, it isn't surprising when you think you can replace evolution and Lamarckianism and not have problems.
Corruption didn't cause their experiments to fail. They failed because they applied the wrong scientific theory in researching agriculture.

You have to understand, the reason why I try to defend evolution is because very few people understand it. I see this as a larger problem of American society overall. It's really bad to have a scientific illerate public when part of the foundations of America is technology and science.

 

[shernren]

I'm still researching evolution myself. At school how the earth was created was part of the teaching on evolution.

That's strange ... what do you mean? How exactly was it taught? As far as I'm aware, the creation of the earth belongs under geology and evolution under biology.