> MoJo wrote: > As I commented elsewhere, being atheist does not preclude people from making > leaps of illogic and unscientific conclusion. For instance, skeptics will > claim vehemently that the Shroud was "proven" to be of medieval origin. > Whether it factually is or not, this is simply not an accurate statement.
Yes, but the way you're speaking is philosphical: What is objective truth?? And that's not at all the question. A predictive framework that's stood for 100 years is as close to fact as anything can be. In other words, evolution is a fact. Period. To your point, it very well may be that there are mechanisms and/or origins *of* evolution that we haven't accounted for, but those things will NEVER disprove the Theory of Evolution. Within the boundaries of known biology, ToE will always and forever be a fact. There is simply no basis for ANY debate on that. To question it is to reject science in total. If you need a better example, let's go back to Newton: his law of gravitation still holds and is still fact; It simply is not as precise as relativity. In other words, within the bounds of the precision known at Newton's time, his law of gravitation was fact. Within those bounds it still is today. To be even more clear, gravity has not been disproved. It ream a fact, period. Newton simply mathematically described it less precise than other models now do. The same is true with evolution: we may discover more precise frameworks, but evolution will remain a fact. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306495 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
