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Until there's more work done on unified field theory and such, I don't think we completely understand gravity either. So saying: "I don't think we know everything there is to know about gravity" doesn't make me some ass backwards, bible thumping, science denying, hillbilly redneck that is so desperately in need of Thor's help to educate me.
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I think someone's already said in this thread that we understand gravity far less than we understand evolution in some ways.
We know that the current theory of gravity is flawed, there are tons of observations which demonstrate that.
The parallels to gravity are just useful because people don't have the same kind of emotional reaction when talking about theories coming and going as they do with respect to the diversity of life.
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This is essentially the parallel I drew from the original post's survey question. I interpreted it as "Do we have a complete and perfect understanding of evolution?". To me, there's a clear answer to that question: no. To answer otherwise is a frightening mix of ignorance and arrogance.
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I don't think you can draw that from the question, since the question ends "so the intervention of a
designer is needed at key stages". This question doesn't seem to be about the completeness of the theory, it's explicitly about an agent (God) outside the evolutionary process.
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The second half of the question the article posed is dangerously loaded making it not a simple yes or no question. But of course a journalist will pick up on that and use it to stir up controversy and sell more papers.
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"God created the world sometime in the last 10,000 years", that's a yes or no (well true or false) question, how could you make that more simple?
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Also, trying to lump anyone that says that we don't have a complete understanding of evolution in with the young earth creationists is one of the most ludicrous straw man arguments I've ever seen.
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Of course, but I didn't see that going on anywhere.