Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
Evolutionary expieraments have also been done on fruit flies, it just takes a hell of a lot longer than using bacteria.
Why do you *not* accept evolution?
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bigdog5994
Lady Day
because thers evidence of gods love everywhere
Like in Cancer?
MrCynical
Deity
Sidhe said:
Actually Sidhe if you state something is absolutely impossible it is often falsifiable. E.g. suppose a scientist expresses a theory that FTL travel is absolutely impossible. This can be falsified by the observation of absolutely anything travelling faster than light, and so is a perfectly falsifiable theory.
Unfalsifiable statements are generally of the form "God did it" or "it was magic". Since you can ascribe any property or intention to a divine being or to magic there is no observation you could make to falsify this statement, so it would an unscientific theory.
Scientists don't like saying things are absolutely impossible because it makes them look ridiculous if proven wrong (which would be impossible if their statement was unfalsifiable). There's nothing wrong with it in the scientific method though.
Narz
keeping it real
Techinically there are probably microorganisms living inside your peanut butter.
How could mermaids evolve? They don't have reproductive organs.
Narz
keeping it real
I missed this gem before. Better than 90% of the funny pix thread.And, to humor you, how is God's love incompatible with evolution?
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
Yes they do. At least I've seen pictures of mermaids with reproductive organs.How could mermaids evolve? They don't have reproductive organs.
Don't the female just lay her eggs and then the male swims by and sprays them with his seed?
Abaddon
Deity
Noone needs to answer this post since it poses the questions that have been asked before too many times an have no concrete answer.
What started it all?
If "God" how do you know your god is the real one? There seems to be a few
What started it all?
If "God" how do you know your god is the real one? There seems to be a few
MrCynical
Deity
Sidhe said:
It wasn't "absolutely" I had any objection to. It was your claim that stating something was absolutely impossible would be unfalsifiable, and hence unscientific, which is untrue as I've explained above.
As to whether FTL is impossible, it looks unlikely, but there I personally would not go as far as stating it is absolutely impossible. The theory that it is impossible is however a perfectly valid scientific theory, as it may be possible to falsify it.
I would suggest you read up on the scientific method, in particular the element of falsifiability, as you seem to be mixing up "We don't know if this is true" with "It is impossible to show this is false".
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I don't accept evolution because it is a tool of the Christian right to oppress the righteous atheist left.
mangxema
I
Dr Tiny
Warlord
Yes, at least according to Futurama.
Ah yes
Fry: Oh, why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom?
And back on topic, I take evolution as fact because I have wisdom teeth, what sort of benign creator would leave an enamel time bomb inside my mouth?
By evolution it seems you mean universal common descent. There is reason why not to believe in UCD like for example the fossil record.
Also similarities are evidence of common ancestry unless similarities aren't the result of common ancestor.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I am pretty sure that by Evolution he means.. you know.. Evolution.
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