stu where are you the theists smell blood :eek:
to the atheists on the board
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is evolution interspecies or intraspecies ? stop dodging the question.
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Evolution is change in the gene pool of a population over time. It's theistically neutral.
Aha if by design. Then the Creator is investing change in DNA on a generation by generation basis, per species, per organism. Can you imagine what a managerial headache that would for just one species of bacterium? Well far be it for me to say that is a hell (oops) of a task, certainly human impossible, but if she is doing it, bravo!
What plan?
Evolution is not theistically neutral if God is behind it, having planned it, initiated it, and then continues the process of maintaining it.
Dgabriel said on a thread months ago.
The mechanism of heredity is well understood. Reproduction, genetic combination, molecular genetics have a wealth of data supporting a directive cellular code that is hereditary by its nature.
The possibility and probability for change in this code is well established. Science has witnessed genetic change over generations in simple organism, has documented this change, known as mutations.
Directly observing this type of change in more complex organisms is prohibitive if not impossible due to the time required for generational cycles.
So the way I read it as far as science goes we have no proof of evolution, we will never have it because the generational cycles are too long, but since we have an understanding of heredity, and mutations we are willing to make the great leap of faith to evolution.
Perhaps dgabriel's understanding of the scientific position is evolving. I do know that the definition of evolution is devolving. At the current pace of backing away soon the definition of evolution will stand for nothing more than what is observable. I find this a great victory for rational thinking. After all it was just some thory thought up by a guy while observing some turtles.
Let me see, you cant make money trading, we evolved from monkeys...
The mechanism of heredity is well understood. Reproduction, genetic combination, molecular genetics have a wealth of data supporting a directive cellular code that is hereditary by its nature.
The possibility and probability for change in this code is well established. Science has witnessed genetic change over generations in simple organism, has documented this change, known as mutations.
Directly observing this type of change in more complex organisms is prohibitive if not impossible due to the time required for generational cycles.
So the way I read it as far as science goes we have no proof of evolution, we will never have it because the generational cycles are too long, but since we have an understanding of heredity, and mutations we are willing to make the great leap of faith to evolution.
Perhaps dgabriel's understanding of the scientific position is evolving. I do know that the definition of evolution is devolving. At the current pace of backing away soon the definition of evolution will stand for nothing more than what is observable. I find this a great victory for rational thinking. After all it was just some thory thought up by a guy while observing some turtles.
Let me see, you cant make money trading, we evolved from monkeys...