Science, Creation & EvolutionWhy is Academia evolutionist?JM: Because evolution IS a fact. Your genetic makeup is different from your parents. That's evolution. Human populations evolve and a good example is the rise/fall of the sickle-cell trait in African and African American populations. That's evolution and it is a fact. There's no need to pretend evolution doesn't happen. JM: Guesswork has a place in new discoveries and in science, but science cannot exist solely on guesswork and does not rely solely on guesswork. Science works by testing, refining and developing what might initially have been guesswork. TO use your vernacular, the 'good guesses' last and the 'bad guesses' fall by the wayside. Darwin had some ideas about what he observed and formulated them into a testable hypothesis. In doing so the previous 'bad guesses' of special creation were shown to be incorrect. JM: Actually evolutionary biology includes much more than just the fossil record. Is it speculation that P.falciparum has developed a resistance to chloroquine and mefloquine and is now showing a resistance to Larium? Is it mere speculation that HeLa cells have become their own sustainable organism from its origin in a vertebrate? You can't be selective in saying that all of evolutionary biology is speculative because that is an incorrect statement. Furthermore, you should also acknowledge that science makes retrodictions in addition to predictions. A good example is found in the lineage of whale evolution. Gingerich and colleagues suspected that a certain type of intermediate fossil should be found within the lineage and even predicted what level in the strata such an intermediate should be found. Indeed, they found the intermediate in the precise location they thought it would be. JM: Let's stick with your analogy for a moment. Yes, an accountant can make the 'facts' look the way the want. I once owned Lucent stock and the accountants at Lucent were cooking the books. I lost money along with a bunch of others because this 'cooking' was discovered by people checking up on the accountants (see Enron for another example). My point? Scientists check up on each other much more often than accountants! Scientists check, re-check and try to poke holes in current thought. That's precisely how ye-creationism fell by the wayside 150+ years ago. Evolution on an old earth is nothing to fear. Cheers Joe Meert |
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