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Originally Posted by Glitch
Liberal freaks are obviously to blame.
Since liberal freaks control all public education in the US via the NEA, and since liberal freaks are only interested in teaching politically correct communist indoctrination when they are not chemically castrating male children, and not an actual education......
This is a truly classic gemstone of rightwing "thinking!"
Yeah, uh ....... we liberals are always trying to chemically castrate children. Wouldn't it be great if all you tea partyers could take over education from the castrating commie liberals?
It can get a bit blurry at times. For example, as you pointed out, we know very little about gravity, but yet we have Newton's law of universal gravitation. Newton's law only applies to weak gravitational fields, when extrapolated further it does not hold up. Which is where Einstein's Theory of General Relativity comes into play. So in this particular case you have a scientific theory modifying what was already established as a scientific law.
Laws are mathematical formulas for a certain phenomenon. Theories do not become Laws or vice versa.
How about the theory of relativity. It's still a theory. Yet we have tested it repeated by placing clocks on planes, rockets, satellites.... We have accelerated particles to nearly the speed of light to test it. We use it daily in the GPS system, in controlling satellites and probes. We have built clocks that have extreme levels of precision to test it. Yet it is still a theory. We don't say the fact of relativity, we says the theory of relativity.
Germs we can see, atoms we can see, gravity we can directly see the results. Those are facts.
And we have physical evidence of evolution. We've witnessed it in nature and in the lab. You just don't know what evolution is, thus you have no clue what would consist of "directly seeing results".
I find it interesting that calling the theory of evolution a theory gets such a response. Even calling it a good, strong theory generated many postings trying to refute that comment. As you stated above, a theory is a "rigorously tested statement of general principles that explains observable and recorded aspects of the world'. So let apply that definition to evolution. First rigorously tested - we have one test on a simple bacteria that supported the theory. That is a test, but it would be a very long stretch to call it rigorously tested. Next Observable aspects: have we repeated observed species evolving into new species. No - we have observed the end result and some intermediate stages that suggest species evolve, but we have not direct observed it happening. The time scale is to long. How about recorded aspects. Fossils are records of the past and from that standpoint evolution does explain what appears to be happening. But the fossil records are not complete with millions of years better records and many pages missing.
You stated that prediction from the theory of evolution remain true. What prediction would those be??
As I stated before, The theory of evolution is a theory.
Well yes the theory of evolution is a scientific theory ....which explains the fact of evolution. I don't mean to insult you but your post shows that your knowledge of evolution seems to be very limited. Likewise your understanding of what "rigorously tested statement of general principles that explains observable and recorded aspects of the world" actually means.
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