Evidence for God from Science

Neo, I see two possibilities here. 1) It is because there is a common ancestor, and all traits get passed down. 2) The Creator used DNA as a building block for life with all living things. With all due respect, Rick, there are several fundamental issues I take with assuming the second option to be ...

Well you can say that, but there was not a single person on Earth who worshiped any monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or what have you. I'm not saying that you are necessarily wrong, but it's not a religion or faith if no one knows or cares about or has faith in it. So no, I woul...

Well I wouldn't say that clash of the Titans is a great resource for legitimate Greek mythology, but there are many similarities between a number of different religions when it comes to themes and morals and the like. And it is true that the Greeks had their mythology and religion long before the Je...

Wow, KBC, congrats on taking what I said and not even remotely interpreting it correctly. I said populations change...never did I say that a million individuals are spontaneously changed at once. I meant exactly what you said...allele frequencies in a population change over time due to various genet...

I still think Pat Robertson is still insane, but good for him for this. I honestly wouldn't have guessed that he was a believer in old-Earth creationism, especially since I swear his tv show sells young-Earth books and things.

See, Byblos, that's where I would disagree with your assessment. Biology is no different in how it deals with new ideas than other fields. The thing is, since the Darwinian revolution in the early twentieth century, there has been no better explanation for the world around us than evolution. There h...

So then, Sam and Kurieuo and anyone else, is my statement about the other sciences that operate similarly to evolutionary biology being false sciences true to you? I'm curious to see if anyone has a response to that. neo-x wrote:read biology sam Well there you have it Sam. :pound: As blunt as it sou...

I'm going to bring up the same thing I did earlier with KBC with you, Sam. No, we have not personally witnessed a millions-of-years-long process of one group of organisms evolving into a completely separate species. The Theory of Evolution is based on a collaboration of various types of evidence (wh...

Neo gets my point. I was correcting the point made by sam. He seemed to infer that evolution means that one species simply gives birth to another, completely new species, and that's how it works. That notion is completely wrong. I was pointing out that evolution works slowly by accumulating changes.

Ivellious the problem with college courses and macroevolution is that they teach it biology classrooms as science when it is more of a faith based teaching. This is indoctrination at it's finest. Macroevolution is religion and you know it. Well, to be fair, there are plenty of public schools you ca...

The very "basis" of evolution is natural selection, not the definition of species. Any biologist will tell you that species names and distinctions are a human concept that is there for our own benefit in describing them, not an intrinsic or innate quality of living things. Yes, in evolutio...

This is assuming the tree of primate evolution is really a tree? Of course the details are everything. On a phylogenetic tree, the details would be the "lines" connecting. Lines drawn on paper are not evidence. They are presumption at best and immagination at worse. I would say these crit...

When they taught us evolution in science class last year (this is sophomore-level science classes when I was a freshman in Connecticut), they didn't touch on macroevolution and microevolution at all. They only mentioned them and their differences, but didn't say anything about them being true or no...

It could. It would more likely have ramifications for archaeology and human-made artifacts, as opposed to fossils and the like, because sunlight would rarely, if ever, impact things that have been underground for millions of years. Same goes for testing different layers of rock or sediment. But if y...

Just a couple more comments on that, Paul: Now evolution in the senses of (2) and (3) is not an established fact, despite what is said and believed in popular culture. I disagree here. At least in the US, "popular culture" would tell you that evolution is a lie/hoax/myth/etc. In other coun...