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Quote by: Jack  I find this amusing. If those who don't grasp evolution yet are determined to try and debunk it were half as skeptical toward their own mythology there would be a lot fewer believers in the world. They willingly swallow fantastic stories of giants and burning bushes that talk and all sorts of nonsense, but when it comes to appreciating a theory about the functioning of the planet around them they're suddenly skeptical.
If we are expected to understand religion before we criticize it, it would be nice if those who wish to debate evolution would at least understand the basics of it. It's impossible to debate misstatements and misunderstandings. |
Every time I see a thread on evolution it deisolves into supporters of evolution claiming supior knowledge without argument of the facts and/our a purposeful intermixing of the terms evolution and spcieation. Most christians don't deny evolution, they deny speciation in a closed sexual system and use the term "evolution" as short hand. While most psuedo-scientest will talk about evolution in the exact same manor and knowing interswitch jargon when it suits their argument.
Sepciation is far from imperical. There has been very little research on the subject. The research that has been done is suspect and inconclusive (i'll add why later), but often used by evolution supporters out of ignorance and desire to protect their paradigm. As well, the very few fossile records used to identify spciation is very conjectural and the absent of such records is suspicious.