@alistair, ikaw lang naman ang masyadong nagpu push ng religion mo dito na EVOLUTION is a FACT!
You're so confused I wonder how you operate in modern society?
Religion requires faith.
Evolution is a scientific theory, based on observable fact and verifiable experiments. No need for faith.
Do you need faith to believe in the theory of Gravity? I mean, if I don't believe in gravity, will I float off the Earth?
http://www.dbskeptic.com/2008/06/21/macro-evolution-observed-in-the-laboratory/"We can see moths evolve their coloring to match the color of soot that covers their habitat, watch bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance in hospitals, and my favorite variety of grapefruit was made by scientists who exposed seeds to radiation to increase the mutation rate."
The article goes on to describe how
E. coli evolved to be able to thrive on citrate (which are normally toxic to it), through a series of mutations. If mutations is micro-evolution, then an organism acquiring a totally new trait is macro-evolution.
That, and
observed speciation like with certain
Ring species.
None of the above require faith.You yourself are free to carefully scrutinize their results and duplicate their experiments or make the same observations as they do.
Now, on the other hand... Christians themselves sometimes disagree whether the 'death' in Gen. 2:17 refers to physical death or spiritual death.
The creation story in Genesis requires faith, and even with faith Genesis can't be taken objectively, nor its premises observed or validated.
All the rhetoric here will not help prove any of the theories. I have stated in my first post that both (creation & evolution) are theories.
You're wrong on the first, and you misunderstand the second.
Scientific "Theory" is different from layman's theory. The layman's theory is a guess, or speculation.
Scientific "Theory" is more like Mathematical Theory—it provides a structured and/or unified model to explain
observable fact. We would
not have Evolutionary Theory if it weren't for the
observable fact that species mutate over time.
Creation as a theory? Now that's not even a guess or speculation. It's a story, a myth that requires faith.
Here's my theory on gravity: tiny invisible winged fairies are pushing down on each one of us keeping us to the ground.
You can't prove they don't exist!