You mix Evolution and evolution, which are two seperate, albiet connected, things. The Theory of Evolution is that man evolved from lower primates blah blah blah. To follow the Scientific method, and therefore become science, you need to be able to replicate it, which has not been accomplished and not for a lack of trying. Evolution (lower case e, capital for grammatical reasons only) does occur, but it is not proof of Evolution. The better word would be adaptation.
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You know, why don't you go back to your Legos, instead of mangling definitions and making wrongheaded, senseless arguments?
"Evolution (lower case e, capital for grammatical reasons only) does occur, but it is not proof of Evolution."
Bah, lego - fun for a while, but so limited. Now Meccano, real Meccano from the Binns Road factory and not that modern crap, that's where it's at.
Evolution is different from Evolution, which actually has a lower case "e" but is capitalized but is still actually lower case? WTF?
noself:
There are rivers but no Rivers!
Now that's just patently untrue! Everyone knows there are Rivers, but rivers are a myth :)
Hensley: Actually, God and god are a pretty good example. Capitalized God's the monothetistic variety, while lower case god is a member of a pantheon.
Here's a good quote by LegoAddict about entropy -- much like 2005's post of the year:
Argumentum ad Capitalization? Bizarre.
So the DNA changing so much that the physical features, food sources and mating habits change, and they cannot breed with the 'original' species, such as gulls etc during ring-speciation isn't evolving?
To be honest, I don't think that this is very fundie. He simply states that the fact (sic!) of evolution does not imply the TOE, which comprises much more than just mutation. Of course in the end he is still wrong. The mechanism of evolutions has to be replicated, not the particular mutation itself.
Evolution is adaptation. You shouldn't have to avoid a word just because your friends at church are going to flip out if you use the word without "IS WRONG!" after it.not happen), doesn't necessarily mean it was the origin of humanity. That works both ways, though. Doubts and uncertainty regarding our origin cannot change what we do know: life evolves.
Erm, adaption hasn't been replicated, but it does occur? How did that fit in your head?
The evolution (aka "adaptation to a changing environment, through random mutations and natural selection") is the actual process, the ToE is the scientific description of the process. They are, in effect, the same thing.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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