"Clearly you do not understand Evolution. It is both fact AND theory. The theory is on how species evolved. You should ratther say The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. The theory there is "by Natural Selection" not Evolution. It is like saying that gravity is a theory." Sir Leomarley (from religion thread).
Mmmmm.....there's a hint of condescension just a hint!You're correct i did make an assertion that "Evolution is the Atheist's creation theory! I should have specified it. So let me qualifiy my statement.
First you yourself made a bold and sweeping statement: Evolution is both theory and fact
In order for us to understand this statement first let’s define the 3 words. Evolution, Theory, Fact,
Evolution
This is the general term given by science to explain the presence of life form on earth. However, what is important and it should be emphasized that there mainly 3 types of evolutionary processes.
Evolution 1: It can mean that life forms at present are different from the life forms in past. So evolution as “change over time” can also refer to minor changes in the features of individual species. These changes takes place in a relatively short period of time. These can be observed and tested. So in this sense or context “evolution” is a FACT!
Evolution 2: This is where it gets tricky: This type of evolution claims that all organism we see today are descended from a single common ancestor in the distant past! This is the theory of universal common descent. This theory paints a picture that life on earth as one great branching tree.
Evolution 3: This is even trickier: This type use the term evolution to refer to a cause or mechanism of change. This is the biological process that Darwin thought was the mechanism: Unguided Natural Selection! This mechanism according to its proponent had the power to produce fundamentally new life forms. Now this together with “universal common descent” forms the core of Darwinian Evolution. “Neo-Darwinian” evolution adds the knowledge of DNA and genetics to claim that “random mutations” in DNA provide the variations upon which “natural selection” acts in a completely unguided fashion to form ever complex and new forms of life forms!
“ I am a physician and been practicing medicine for almost 20 years now. I know a thing or two about DNA, genetics and mutations. Both in my practice, med school and reading of journals on diseases, mutations in the molecular levels has always a negative outcome like diseases, carcinoma, infection. Mutations in bacterias/viruses result in more virulent form of that bacteria/virus. There has never been in the history of medicine where bacteria mutated into another completely different bacteria.”
The first type of evolution called “micro-evolution” I agree with as a fact since has been observed and tested. As I said if we are talking about small-scale changes in species in time, then this type of evolution is indeed a FACT!
However, the second type called “Universal common descent” and the third type “Unguided Natural Selection/Random Mutations. Random mutations have for the most part produce negative effects like diseases, and have not been showed to produce more complex organs much more produce an entirely new organism. Since these two types of Evolutionary mechanisms has not been observed and tested then it stands to reason that this is NOT a FACT!
