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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I don't think gravity is a good comparable, do you? Gravity has held up to tests, scientific and not, a bazillion times every day.
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I think it is comparable, evolution has also held up to tests, maybe not a bazillion, but 150 years worth of hundreds of thousands of scientists. Predictions made and confirmed, direct observation, etc.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Evolution is not so easily tested and it largely depends on the accuracy of other science, like genetics. Additionally, there is undoubtedly a large amount of undiscovered and untested evidence out there still.
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You can say the same things about any other theory, there's always undiscovered and untested evidence.. those are no reason not to provisionally accept a theory as accurate, because the theory IS accurate given the conditions it was observed under.. new evidence would be new conditions.
And it's not so much as evolution depending on other sciences like genetics, genetics didn't exist when evolution was established. It's more a case of many different disciplines of science (genetics, developmental biology, geology, cosmology, chemistry, physics) all coming to the same conclusions via very different paths, independent of each other. That lends strength to the theory.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
It's a much more difficult concept for a person to get their head around than is gravity or the spherical shape of our planet, things that can bee seen. Thor is reconciling this simply be proclaiming folks stupid.
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See the edit in my last post I think I cover this a bit. Yes it's more difficult, but some people don't accept or reject it because it's difficult, some do so for other reasons. For me anyway those are the people I would call willfully ignorant (I prefer that to stupid, stupid means can't understand, most could easily understand if they took their blinders off).