re: #475 Dragonwolf

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Teachers showed me evidence of what scientists had observed. Everything you pointed out can be directly dis-proven through observation.

I consider them priests when they expect me to accept extrapolations that they have made, without observation evidence, without question.

I do understand that not all scientists fight against the questioning. Stephen Hawkins (sp?) for example has a bet going with a colleague in which the only way he can win the bet is for his life’s work to be proven wrong.

Science is the foundation we use as our platform for encountering reality. That doesn’t mean it has all the answers yet, nor that all the answers it does have are correct.

I find it interesting that most of you don’t accept the possibility for error that I point out, when any good scientist would. Perhaps the priests have done too good a job catching you all at a young age.

Evolutionary scientists have been amassing mountains of empirical evidence that supports their contentions for 150 years. To date, not a single shred of evidence contradicting evolution has been found.

Your invocation of mystery doesn’t fly. Jut because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean that we don’t know some things, and one of the things we know is that species evolve via random genetic mutation acted upon by nonrandom environmental selection. Evolution is as validly, soundly, solidly empirically grounded as is the heliocentric theory of the solar system or the theory of universal gravitation.