20 Jun
2018
20 Jun
'18
5:29 a.m.
I did not answer at first because I think everyone is free to believe or not,
but this time too much is simply wrong.
On Wednesday 20 June 2018 02.31:18 Felix Miata wrote:
It's not a versus. Evolution IS a religion:
It's definitely *not*
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t
...
2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed
upon by a number of persons or sects:...
"Evolution", as taught, is not subject to proof.
This is wrong. Just as some may kill member of other religions although theirs
tell them not to, I can't make sure that there are not some who "teach"
evolution as a religion, but evolution is a *theory*, that itself has evolved
once first proposed. It has evolved because scientific evidence has showed
that proposed explanations did not fit to facts
As taught it's all based
on theories, aka beliefs.
Wrong again. A theory is driven by *facts*. It's a model that needs to be
modified if it's not able to explain new facts that are discoverd.
Micro-evolution is without question real and
provable, but micro-evolution is not taught as distinguishable from the
other 6 types of unprovable evolution, such as that which says dinosaurs
and man did not coexist.
This simply comes from the fact that datation methods (which by the way use
the same physics that are used in CERN to improve another model, which tries
to explain how matter is made) show that dinosaurs disappeared 65 millions
years ago while man in its modern form is some two million years old.
That's as if you said it is unprovable that I could not meet Darwin.
Technically, it's arguably true that dinosaurs
didn't, because "dinosaur" is a word originally created during the 19th
century. Before then, the creatures since referred to as dinosaurs were
called dragons, and there has been found much art on the walls of caves and
elsewhere created many tens of centuries ago that indicate man was
interacting with living dragons.
From which not a single bone has ever been found. My daughter draws a lot
of "animals" that have never existed, and never will exit. (I admit she does
not draw on a cave).
> then I think (or maybe, I believe) that we need
to start
> another thread, if not indeed a separate forum, list, or whatever.
True. I doubt TDE will ever "evolve" to clear this sort of things :)
One of my reasons to reply was to highlight the
unending inane off-topic
threads about coffee, chocolate & dinosaurs polluting this list and its
archive. If dinosaurs are OK, then anything should go. I'd like to see OT
stuff keep to a minimum or less.
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Prie Dieu mais continue de nager vers le rivage.
(proverbe russe)
Pray to God but continue to swim to the shore.
(Russian proverb)