That's the thing. If the coin did land as tails, the theory would be overturned. If you had 'faith' in the coin only being able to land as heads, you'd see it land tails and say "God's just trying to test me! It's actually heads in disguise!"

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Huh? Guess so, but that was not what I was getting at.

My bottom line: you can observe whatever you want, how many times you want. But just because something happened who-knows-how-many-times, does not mean it must happen again. People need to realize that evolution is not a fact.
Is it a faith? Yes, because there is no solid proof that it is right, and you need to believe in it. But it is one of those "faiths" that was gotten through continuous observation and logical deduction. Hence it is the type of faith we call "theory". It does not need to be true, but all our observations till now verify it and it explains our world nicely through logic, if you assume that our previous observation are "true".

Evolution can be a faith, if you believe in some sense we will eventually evolve into god, (or one individual organism will) and that evolved being will create the universe for the purpose of creating itself (it would evolve to be able to manipulate time and space as its well, god)

Evolution doesn't seem to work that way, but scientology for instance believes people can ascend to godhood if they pay for enough courses, so I won't doubt its a religion.

But from your initial post you seem to think it hasn't been PROVEN.

We can control it to domesticate and breed animals, and have been doing so since just after hunter gather stage. We can see it work when we attempt to kill off bacteria cultures. to say it doesn't exist means you are choosing not to look.

Now if you want to say humans don't evolve (thats silly) or humans didn't evolve from a common ancestor from chimps (debatable) it generally means you don't know what evolution MEANS as it wasn't taught in your schools and you learned it from bad movies.

Right now humans are evolving into diabetics, why? because the world isn't killing the diabetics off.

Should some change in the world occur where diabetics get killed off, the non-diabetics will live and breed. Other changes might leave only diabetics. its evolution.

although humans don't really evolve because humans are products of artificial selection. cuz we are humans.

@just passing by.

The analogy I was told from your statement is... imagine a chicken and a farmer.

every day in the chicken's life, the farmer comes and feeds the chicken.
on the day the farmer comes to slaughter the chicken, he has no reason to believe the farmer will slaughter him from past events.

So you can use that arguement just because its been that way since live existed, doesn't mean one day God might come down and change things to fit his purposes. Or maybe he screwed with the historical record.

Maybe there is no time but the very instance you are living in.

and then you get into the "I think therefore I am" stuff of existance itself.

the point is, if you want to believe tomorrow won't follow today, FINE believe that. I'll concede the point.

However its a safe bet that it will.

Such a false dichotomy... "faith" and "fact" are not opposites, and in fact, have nothing to do with each other.

Just stop. Why are you looking for the definition of Intelligent Design in a dictionary? I would look for a definition for evolution in a textbook. Those that advocate Intelligent Design can give you a better definition for it, and most would tell you the designer did not use evolution.

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I understand perfectly what a theory is, believe me when I say that I am highly reversed in such topics. A theory is NOT a fact, if you look at even the first phrase of the definition from the dictionary "a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact."

Evolution is indeed still a theory which means it cannot be regarded as fact. Plus just so you know the "theory of gravity" doesn't exist anymore because we now have Newtons 2nd Law, also known as the law of gravity, it is not a theory. Laws and theories and two very different things. Laws are facts, theories are not and they cannot be used interchangeably.

If you choose to believe in the theory of evolution than that's nobodies business but your own. However, you can't go around accurately saying that everything you're putting forth is fact, because science is about discovery and change especially in regard to theories.

If you're still confused between the differences I suggest you read this page, it is very informative and should clarify things.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm

Sorry for the long response, I just don't appreciate being told that I don't understand something, when in reality I know a lot about the subject.

Uh, because I live in the Netherlands in a place far away from the Bible Belt, so those who advocate Intelligent Design are nowhere in my vicinity.



This is a crap argument: if they think the "designer" didn't use evolution, it wouldn't be "Intelligent Design" anymore, but just plain old creationism. I also bid you not to underestimate the efforts of lexicographers; before a lemma is added it will have been well researched, whereas the definition you will get from one person adhering Intelligent Design will most likely reflect personal beliefs as well, and textbooks written by people who believe in ID are biased; therefore, the dictionary meaning is much more reliable.

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Again. a theory is like Tommorrow will follow from today.

You want to argue tommorrow WON'T follow from today, maybe tomorrow gravity will push instead of pull

Nobody can predict the future with 100% accuracy. but if you don't take it as fact you can't take anything as fact, and you get trapped in the mental exercise of ancient times answered by Rene Descartes. where the only thing that you can be 100% sure of, is that you, whatever you are. can be defined by the fact that you think, therefore there must be something that is YOU. and everything else is subject to manipulation from higher powers who want to just be shitting with you for their own purposes.

YOU CAN BE THAT WAY. IF you understand you are being that way. fine.

But I'm getting the impression you have no clue what you are saying. reversed? Seriously you are well reversed? you mean Revered? Rehearsed?

But yeah, If we are going to make assumptions that tomorrow will follow from today and yesterday, next cycle behaves like previous cycle, and the definition that doing the same thing, with the same processes and expecting a different result is insanity.

then you are being insane. and Evolution is a fact.

But again, there is no PROOF Tommorrow will follow from today, and there WON'T BE until tommorrow becomes today, and then we got the next tommorrow to wait for.

So its only a theory. But you are being a tool.

Which is to say, Evolution the process of Natural and artificial selection are facts/laws/process/definition.

the Theory part is the part saying what WILL happen.

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As hilarious as I find this video (gave me a laugh for a good five minutes) , me being familiar with both sides of the argument, I can confidently say that biblical creationism was not "smashed"

On another note, the theory of evolution is based on a lot of observed facts. More specifically, micro evolution is and can be easily seen every day...macro evolution is the part which I say requires some faith to believe in, as its not based on observable, testable things.

the question from the OP was terribly phrased....the question is not about micro evolution, which even an idiot should agree exists, but about macro evolution


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Evolution is pure fact. I observe it virtually every day working as a clinical microbiologist.
See that MRSA thing the media always love to talk about?
Evolution in action children.

it isnt a fact nor a faith

its a theory

and until proven wrong it wont be a faith
and in the same matter
until proven right it wont vbe a fact

simple right^^

Lmao....what a stupid, ignorant statement

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-Oath of the Night's Watch, A Song of Ice and Fire

That does not make it faith, that makes it a reasonable expectation.

Believing in a divine creator is not reasonable expectation, it is faith.

I do not take it on faith that the brakes on my car will work the next time I am out driving, I do not take it on faith that the sun will rise tomorrow; I have reasonable expectations that the brakes will work and the sun will rise, because I have no reason to believe anything is wrong with my car as I have taken care of it and there has been no indication of any fault, and astronomical observations tell me that the sun is not about to go out and we are, and will be, still spinning in orbit around it by tomorrow.

The gist of it being reasonable. I can reason, and prove to a certain degree, that something is or will happen.
Believing in the metaphysical, or transcendent beings, requires faith and is incompatible with reason and logic. Thus being unreasonable expectations.

Faith is believing in things without proof or reason, in fact most cases the display of faith is rejection of proof and reason. Evolution is very reasonable and has plenty proof.

Hahaha, I laughed at this.

I agree that evolution is a theory.

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I don't think the Netherlands is far away from the Internet.

You having a problem with ID is not my problem or business, but you can't twist their beliefs as such. Done. If you want to get started with bias, can't you say all biology textbooks nowadays have an evolutionary bias? Of course you can just say it's science. But that's what we're all here for, aren't we.

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