Thread: Evolution

I completely forgot about this.

Originally Posted by s2cuts

lol, no dude. You are quite simply wrong. I use the betting slang "lock" to imply that if you could bet on Evolution being right vs any other explanation for how life developed on the planet Earth (or anywhere else for that matter), you should take the bet because it's easy money. Of course, my contention implies NOT that the probability of such an outcome is absolute, but that it is nearly so. I don't think that was lost on anyone but you. And to take it a step further, since you've entered scientist into the argument, if you sat and had a chat with any reputable scientist they would agree that Evolution is a "lock". Take, oh, Francis Collins, just to make my point.

I'm sorry I misunderstood you, but you see I'm not a native English speaker and thus, unfortunately, I'm not really good with it's "betting slang", so that's why your statement was "lost on me".

And to take it a step further, since you've entered scientist into the argument, if you sat and had a chat with any reputable scientist they would agree that Evolution is a "lock". Take, oh, Francis Collins, just to make my point

That isn't true and you know it. There would be plenty of scientists that could be objectively called reputable who wouldn't jump to conclusions as fast as some others do, and the only problem is that you might consider them not to be reputable only because they have a different view on the problem at hands.

Your comments here seem to hint that you really don't have a clue as to how much evidence exists in support of Darwin's theory of Evolution, or how foundational it is in fields such as medicine or pharmacology. But if you want to insist that Evolution "certainly isn't" the only reasonable explanation for our existence, or that there is clearly something deficient about Evolution, then please tell us your thoughts.

Let's make one thing clear, I'm not trying to challenge the theory of evolution, after all even the Catholic Church, for example, accepts the theory of evolution as we know it today, I'm simply trying to state what to me seems as obvious, and that's the fact that human knowledge and understanding of things had changed during times and I cannot know for certain that sometime in future people won't find a different explanation and evidence which would refute those evidence we currently take for granted, after all theory of evolution isn't perfect and there are still things it cannot explain sufficiently. Of course there is far more likely possibility that theory of evolution (possibly with some minor or major tweaks) will continue to be considered the right answer on the question of the beginning of the humankind.