(EUS)Gen.BadSnipaDay wrote:
Evolution has been proven.
That's wrong. But it's a great way into this topic. It has to be wrong as it's impossible to prove scientific theories. It only works the other way: You can prove that a theory is wrong.
That's the way science works and it's the small thing that followers of the creationism use to their advantage. They just say "Ha, that dumbass Charles Darwin has never proven that his theory about evolution was right". That's right, he couldn't do so cause he was a scientist.
On the other hand the creationists make up their own theories in a clever extensive way which makes it hard to disprove them in a scientific manner as their last argument - as in most religions - is that "God moves in mysterious ways".
Perhaps some of you know the religion of the pastafarian that says that the world was created by the great flying spaghetti monster. It's obviously made up as nobody - not even the creator Bobby Henderson - denies that it was made up. But it's not possible to disprove it. It was just created to show how the creationism stuff works.
I for one think that the work of people like Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Godfrey Harold Hardy/Wilhelm Weinberg, Ernst Mayr or Richard Dawkins is much more believable than the creationist's stuff.
Another thing that makes it hard to argument with them as they're always very well informed about flaws in the evolution theory and so on. The Archaeopteryx doesn't fit in perfectly as the missing link from reptiles to birds. That's what most scientists say too. But perhaps it was a relativly successfull branch relevant to the mysterious missing link. We don't know yet. But we're willing to say that we don't know it while the creationists simply claim to have the answer to everything.
I for one think it's incredible stupid to believe in this stuff. Normally I don't question someones beliefs but creationists are just nuts.
There is just one answer to the life, the universe and all the rest: 42.