Go Slugs
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Joined: Jan 13, 2007
Location: Portland, OR
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While I agree it's a good idea to keep a level head and remain civil in
these discussions, there's an error in your statement, luringattraction,
that happens to bring up a REALLY good point.
"God cannot be proven and evolution cannot be proven. Both are
theories. And just as you can't prove them, they can't be disproved either."
This is not correct. I won't even go into what might constitute proof
for evolution. Nearly all scientists, many European religious
authorities, and much of the world already understands how much there
really is. What I will point out is that evolution CAN be disproved.
There are many many things that WOULD disprove evolution. The famous
saying is "fossil rabbits in the precambrian." Likewise ANY
fossil found out of order would effectively disprove evolution.
Likewise, spontaneous appearance of evolved features in two distantly
related species would do the trick as well.
Imagine that there was a creator, they just made some birds and now
they're moving on to bats. Why not use feathers? They work, they're
pretty... if that happened, if you found a bat with bird feathers, you'd
have proof of design and evolution would be false.
Scientific theories are by their definition falsifiable. That's what
gives them their strength. The fact that in 150 years there is not one
fossil found out of order, not one piece of verifiable evidence against
evolution... that's a pretty strong record.
God on the other hand is not a theory. It is a statement of faith. It
cannot be disproven because there are no testable claims. All it would
take to prove the existence of god would be for god to provide a
miracle, a revelation to all of humanity... hasn't happened in my
lifetime or since the existence of the camcorder.