Re: Evolution as a scientific theory

"J McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Can you test evolution?

The Theory of Evolution makes predictions which have been repeatedly
validated. These include the nested hierarchy in time of extinct life, the
nested hierarchy of extant life, and the recently discovered nested
hierarchy of genomes.


> I mean evolution as the transformation of
> living entities of a primordial type, to a more sophisticated sort
> over the span of millions of years.  For example, at one time
> evolutionists claim that monkeys ruled the world.

This isn't even close to being an accurate statement of the theory of
evolution. Please provide a cite.


> This would be apes,
> gibbons, monkeys or whatever current terms are available.  After
> awhile, some of these monkeys began to stand erect.  Some of them
> started to talk in a sign language.  They started out as hunters and
> gatherers, but finally began to cultivate crops and hence civiliation
> began, in the form of homo sapiens.
>
> The problem is, everyone has a different interpretation of bones.  No
> one is quite sure what all the bone specimens mean.  Conjecture is
> involved when scientists try to reconstruct the bones.  The problem
> becomes acute when scientists try to put the bones together.  One bone
> doesn't mean it belongs to another bone or set of bones.

There is ample fossil evidence that there once existed creatures such as
dinosaurs, pterosaurs and non-human hominids. Any quibbling over details
doesn't change this fact.


> Additionally, emotionalism is involved in interpreting the bones.
> Many evolutionists are deeply emotional about their beliefs and want
> to ensure that everyone believes as they do.

This is irrelevant to the evidence.


>
> Emotionalism means the use of highly charged words, such as "liar,"
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and others.
>
> Do a word search at google newsgroups on the following evolutionists
> on these groups and discover their use of emotional words such as
> "liar" and "%^%$#".
>
> Dana Tweedy
> Aaron Clausen
> Gen2rev
> Raven1
> Fill blank here_____________________________
>
>
> You will find that emotionalism and hostility pervade the language
> that they use.  This is emotionalism.
>
> Emotion has a way of distorting reality, in making one think that
> something is true when it is not.  So views may be highly subjective.
> True, just because one uses emotions doesn't mean one is wrong.  It
> just shows that even evolutionists have emotions and err too. They err
> all the time, and casually do so.
>
> Emotion had to do with the Piltdown Hoax, and even with a pig's tooth
> as being thought to belong to an ancestor of mankind.  Evolutionists
> even draw monkey heads perched awkwardly atop human bodies all the
> time. This is emotionalism and has only subjective backing behind
> these drawings.
>
> True, evolutionists need to abandon extreme emotionalism and obey the
> truth.  The rest of the world knows what they are up to, and that
> fraudulent construction should be abandoned.
>
> JM
>