If evolution is loosely defined, then if I change eating habits, I have evolved and evolution is true. Or if cars after ten years are different than current cars, evolution is true.
Evolution means change over time. Darwin's theory is about the change in gene pools and the morphology of living populations. Before biological evolution there was material evolution, in which matter evolved from an extremely hot, dense soup of fundamental particles and forces into the form we find the universe to be in today., and chemical evolution, when organic molecules organized themselves into the first living population, unicellular marine life. That's when biological evolution began. Later, we had psychological evolution, in which consciousness, the senses, volition, intelligence, and the like first appeared in our universe. And finally, cultural evolution, where proto-languages eventually branch into nested hierarchies of language families, and religions keep changing and splitting to form another nested hierarchy.
If antibiotics destroy certain germs and there is left those that are resistant, it is not evolution.
That's exactly evolution - a change in allelic frequencies in a gene pool with its attendant modification of the population that gene pool supports. Before, resistance was limited to a smaller fraction of the total. After, those lacking the specific gene necessary to survive the antibiotic will be selected against if exposed to the antibiotic, and those with resistance will be most if not all of the population.
If evolution theory would really be possible, we could take for example rats and breed them so that they develop into mini whales.
Evolution is a fact. You can observe it occurring even in your own family. The theory explaining it is too firmly established for there to be any reasonable hope of it being overturned.
The only way your religion can be used for determining what is correct is by using it as a cult and excluding what you don't like and can't deal with.
The way that we determine that the science is correct is to put it to work predicting outcomes. If it works, we consider it knowledge and add it to our collection of ideas that work. Evolutionary theory works. It unifies mountains of data from a multitude of sources, accurately makes predictions about what can and cannot be found in nature, provides a rational mechanism for evolution consistent with the known actions of nature, accounts for both the commonality of all life as well as biodiversity, and has had practical applications that have improved the human condition in areas like medicine and agriculture.
By contrast, its only alternative, creationism, is a useless and sterile idea.Even if it were true, it remains a useless idea. Feel free to collect useless ideas and reject useful ones based on faith rather than evidence. I had a different plan for my life.
I believe much of science prophesy is already shown false and changed.
Actually, science has the only high-quality prophecy. Science has repeatedly predicted the existence of various physical phenomena in very specific terms. In recent times, gravity waves and the Higgs boson were predicted and eventually discovered and measured to reveal the precise qualities predicted.
Before that, the cosmic microwave background was predicted to exist as a homogeneous and ubiquitous presence at a specific temperature and wavelength, as well as the elemental composition of pristine nebulae. Before that, Einstein predicted that the sun would bend light, which was confirmed.
That's what high-quality prophecy looks like. High quality prophecy is specific, detailed and unambiguous. Optimally, quantitative aspects such as the time and place are specified. It needs to prophecy something unexpected, unlikely or unique - something that was not self-fulfilling and could not have been contrived or easily guessed. And finally, to be considered high quality prophecy, the predictions must be be accurate, unaccompanied by failed prophecies, verified that they came before the event predicted, and that they were fulfilled completely.
Only science can meet these standards. Nostradamus couldn't. The Bible writers couldn't. Jeanne Dixon annd Dionne Warwick couldn't. That ought to tell you something, but only if you use evidence to decide what is true about the world.
Just because science is religiously clueless does not mean the truth does not go marching on and over it's rotting corpse!.
Science doesn't need religion, and adding religion to science only degrades it as we saw with the intelligent design movement. They poisoned the method by assuming the existence of a god and then searching through the evidence using the eyes that bias created. Not surprisingly, they came to false conclusions, especially regarding irreducible complexity. Faith is the death of reason.
We do not even have any genetic info from Noah or Adam's day that us usable.
Adam was made of dirt. He wouldn't have DNA.
All the paleo fraud so called sciences. Also geology. evolutionary biology, cosmology, theoretical astrophysics etc etc! Ha.
Yeah, all of science is one giant fraud
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You stare into your high definition plasma screen monitor from the comfort or your air conditioned and electrically lighted home, type into your cordless keyboard then hit enter, which causes your computer to convert all that visual data into a binary signal that's processed by millions of precise circuits.
"This is then converted to a frequency modulated signal to reach your wireless router where it is then converted to light waves and sent along a large fiber optics cable to be processed by a super computer on a mass server.
"This sends that bit you typed to a satellite orbiting the earth that was put there through the greatest feats of engineering and science, all so it could go back through a similar pathway to make it all the way here to my computer monitor 15,000 miles away from you just so you could say, "Science is all a bunch of man made hogwash."- anon.
The belief set of so called science results in looking at God's creation is strange ways.
Science has no need of any god hypothesis. One cannot make any scientific theory more useful by inserting a god into it, and science is all about useful knowledge.
When is Christianity going to make a useful contribution to the fund of man's useful knowledge? I can't find a use for any of it, which, of course, is why I am no longer a Christian. Why are you?
Yes, the method of omitting the creator and imagining other ways to explain creation at any cost!
There is no cost to science in ignoring religion.
Personally I use the knowledge based approach. I look at what animals are mentioned in the bible and assume most are probably created kinds. Since your religion (science) cannot cover this, you must remain ignorant.
Ignorant? What useful knowledge do you think your religion has to offer those living happily without it?
the theory of evolution that has you being a relative of cockroaches!
You too. Does that offend you? Not I.
the theory of evolution of life on earth...no. There is actually NO evidence whatsoever. Not one iota. I kid you not. It is religion.
None for you, because evidence is of no use to the faith-based thinker, so he pays no attention to it. But your unwillingness to learn is not relevant to others who have, and the opinions spawned by faith and scientific ignorance are of no value on this side of the reason line. The other congregants in your church may be interested. Take it to Sunday school. You might have some success there, especially with young children. They're pretty much at your mercy if their parents bring them to you.
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Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” - Aristotle
What I hope and expect for all dark lying fables is that they wither away and die to be remembered no more
You'll get your wish. Christianity is evaporating from the developed world.
Interesting! Wasn't aware that forensics used DNA to this extent... That's awesome.
You might find this of interest. The Sacramento District Attorney prosecuted both cases:
What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics
"police identified Waller through the public genealogy website GEDMatch"
Police use DNA to arrest 'NorCal Rapist' suspect in crimes that spanned 15 years