Does evolution have any practical implications? (This is NOT Creation vs Evolution)

[newfangle]

His signature DOES have a warning.

 

[GenMarshall]

I feel thats esential since it helps us better understand nature itself.

 

[Boris Godunov]

Who's Frank?

My other personality.

 

[Homie]

I believe Pyrite was being sarcastic and poking fun at me, insinuating that I belong in the camp of people who think that way, I don't think he actually was being serious with what he said. But that makes what he said even more out of line, as it is inflammatory.

About conceding that evolution has practical applications, I don't know. I read the link which has been posted 3 times, and I in fact read it three times, but it says "Evoltuion is being used for so and so purposes" without really explaining how. The idea from that link seems to be that we have to have evolution or else we wouldn't understand why this and that happens, I disagree.

 

[Sidhe]

The trouble with evolution is there are hundreds of cases of people trying to fit new knowledge into the theory so you can't really be specific without wrting a book on the subject, evolution just has so much scope you can't sum it's practical applications up in a paragraph. there are loads of books, Googling would be good but a book on the evolution of evolution would be better.

Here's one you'll like it, it's an attack on evolution from scientists, showing how new discoveries have revealed some very intriguing questions into the verracity of it's fundemental principles.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/091756152X/qid=1150556088/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_3_2/202-4027312-4359017

 

[Boris Godunov]

Here's one you'll like it, it's an attack on evolution from scientists, showing how new discoveries have revealed some very intriguing questions into the verracity of it's fundemental principles.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/091756152X/qid=1150556088/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_3_2/202-4027312-4359017

Ugh, not Denton. This book came out in 1985, and now it's 20 years later, and the theory that is supposedly "in crisis" continues on as strong as ever.

Denton's work has been thoroughly discredited by actual evolutionary scientists:

http://www.2think.org/eatic.shtml
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/denton.html
http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/kortho18.htm

It's funny to note that in a book he wrote 10 years later, Denton seems to have gone to the other end and claimed evolution was not only true, but inevitable. It pissed off a lot of creationists:

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/latest_2003/theory-in-crisis.html

 

[Sidhe]

Good because I've always been a staunch advocate of evolution.

 

[Sidhe]

http://fermat.nap.edu/html/evolution98/evol1.html

Here's an excellent resource that shows the fundementally huge impact evolution has had on modern thinking from a historical persepctive and it's relationship with other areas of science. It looks and reads like a high school text book, but if your a knowless laymen then it should give you some grounding in why evolution is such a hot topic and has been since it's discovery.