The crucial problem with evolution is that it isn't science. According to the scientific method, science is repeatable and observable. The Big Bang isn't repeatable or observeable. Evolution fits more correctly in the religion category, in that it answers the three eternal questions, "Where did we come from?, Why are we here?, and Where are we going?"
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"Evolution fits more correctly in the religion category, in that it answers the three eternal questions, "Where did we come from?, Why are we here?, and Where are we going?"
No, evolution has nothing to do with any of that.
Actually, evolution is a scientific theory. Biology, which uses the theory of evolution, is a science.
The Big Bang is a scientific theory. Physics, which uses it, is a science.
Clear?
Big Bang: NOT EVOLUTION!!1!
The effects of evolution: observable.
The process of evolution: repeatable and observable.
The process leading to the effects that we currently observe is the only thing we cannot observe, but it isn't really necessary when we can estimate it from telltale signs around us. Think of it as evolutionary forensics.
And your definition of "religious questions" make it so that explaining where you headed for vacation is a religion.
Where did we come from?
Lower orders of life.
Why are we here?
Evolution says nothing about that.
Where are we going?
Well, we'll die, but evolution also has nothing do to with what happens next and can't answer as to what will happen to our species.
So, really, only one question got answered.
Finding new fossils is repeatable. Then there's fruit fly speciation experiments, Miller-Urey, epidemiology, computer simulations validating the basic model, etc.
Evolution fits more correctly in the religion category, in that it answers the three eternal questions, "Where did we come from?, Why are we here?, and Where are we going?"
Wrong. Evolution doesn't purport to answer even one of those questions. Evolution provides answers for this question: "By what process did Humanity rise to become Homo Sapiens Sapiens ?
What the fuck does the question, "Why are we here?", in any way shape or form have to do with evolution???? That is a religious or philosophical question that has absolutely NOTHING to do with science, and is NEVER asked or answered by evolution!!!!
"observeable(sic)"
Dumbfuck can't even spell observable.
See Penzias & Wilson's Nobel in Physics, imbecile.
And evolution has been observed repeatedly.
Hope for a nice fatal MRSA infection, jackass.
Where did we come from is abiogenesis, as in life...
Big bang =/= evolution
Also, evolution is observable, that's why most of it is fact.
"Where did we come from?, Why are we here?, and Where are we going?"
... and why do we spend so much time wearing digital watches?
then again, creation isn't repeatable or observable, but you never hear us whine about that now do you?
evidence this game is about. (I know, evolution is repeatable and constantly happening)
your hypocrisy...
Repeatable: Joe and Moe can both look at the same rock sample, can both run the appropriate tests, and can both come up with the same answer for the age of the sample. Joe and Moe can both look at the same fossils and see the relationships between ancient and modern species. AND Joe and Moe are allowed to disagree with each other concerning those fossils, but each of them will be required to provide evidence for his conclusions.
Now we have a hundred thousand scientists who have looked at the fossils and come to the same conclusions. Isn't that repeatable enough for you? Any number can play; you are allowed to disagree, but unless you have evidence, it isn't science.
No, I said EVIDENCE, not arguments. Now here is the hard part, so listen closely: if by some means you could prove evolution is incorrect, it would still do nothing to prove your god hypothesis. If you want to prove god, you will need (** all together now **) EVIDENCE!
“The crucial problem with evolution is that it isn't science.”
Right now i wager six hundred quatloos your definition of ‘science’ isn’t the real definition.
“According to the scientific method, science is repeatable and observable.”
No. No, that’s not the scientific method. If that were true, any study of stars going nova would not be science until they made a star go nova inside a lab, and i live too close to MIT for that shit.
SCIENCE requires ‘repeatable observations.’ Not eyewitnessing, nor lab performance. Meaning if i look through a microscope and see something, anyone else can look through their microscope and see the same thing. Efforts to date a fossile or a strata will yield similar results in separate experiments.
It’s science. It’s WAY better science than you know how to do.
"The Big Bang isn't repeatable or observeable.”
But the observations made are repeatable. Then there’s the math that works out the same way for independent physicists.
“Evolution fits more correctly in the religion category, in that it answers the three eternal questions, "Where did we come from?, Why are we here?, and Where are we going?"
Except it doesn’t. We’re here. From that starting point we can determine HOW we got here. ‘Why’ is a question of philosophy.
And where we’re going is a dumpster fire but that’s politics in 2025, not science.
Confused?
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