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12-23-2006, 11:55 PM #11Senior Member
If God is real, why are there atheists?
Now lets talk about supporting and proof evidence in relation to evolution.
In science it is very difficult or impossible to produce proof evidence. This is the point some people exploit to bring confusion around evolution.
Evolution does not have proof evidence, it may some day if we are able to watch a species be produced from another. Time will tell, maybe we have already.
I cant say for sure because evidence proving evolution really wouldn’t be that big of a deal in the biological sphere because it is already accepted as fact.
The supporting evidence is breathtaking. The amount of data which fits with evolutionary theory is so large the possibility of another theory also explaining it all is almost impossible. This is why it is accepted as fact.
I admit also, there is a gap between the evidence and the theory (As there always is). For evolution the gap is small, for other theories evolution replaced their gaps were larger.
Essentially science accepts the theories with the smallest gap, then encourages further research to shrink the gap further. (this is basically accepting the best explanation of data)
Important note: the structure of the human knee does not fit with intelligent design. It contradicts it. But the human knee fits very well with evolutionary design. Hmmm
Interesting again. (we can talk more of this)
Science and religion are both structured in different ways. Science structured itself to find the truth. Religion structured itself so that it cannot be disproven.
To be disproven something must make predictions or claims. So the theory of evolution predicted the field of genetics (amazing, I must admit Darwin got lucky on this one)
The only predictions that religion makes are very vague, fuzzy and wide open to interpretation. (following the discipline of fortune tellers)
Realistically since religion makes not solid claims, this claims can never be false. And religion can never be “proved” false.
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