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Thread #144682   Message #3349140
Posted By: Steve Shaw
10-May-12 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka--Contd...
Subject: RE: BS: YEC Eureka--Contd...
Evidence for evolution? Well there are two ways of looking at this. First, individual bits of evidence. Any piece of evidence must be potentially subject to all those things I said: questioning, criticism, testing, ridiculing, being contested, repeating and peer-reviewing. Even, in some cases, overturning. That happens all the time in science, even in evolutionary theory. But then there's the other thing. There is such a mass of evidence now that evolution takes place that it is inconceivable that it will be sufficiently overturned in order to negate the theory. The evidence arrives from diverse strands, all interlocking beautifully into a synergy, from observation, fossils, comparative anatomy, embryology, biochemistry, genetics and more. Tweaking will always be possible, but overthrow cannot happen. If anyone has even the beginnings of a suspicion that they might have come across evidence for an alternative big story (evidence, mind), then let's have it.