Objections To Evolution

by hamilcarr 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  hamilcarr

  Just curious: are there any objections to evolutionary biology beside these refuted on wikipedia:

  3 Objections to evolution's scientific acceptance 3.1 Evolution is just a theory, not a fact 3.2 Evolution is controversial or contested 4 Objections to evolution's scientific status 4.1 Evolution is a religion 4.2 Evolution is unfalsifiable 5 Objections to evolution's evidence 5.1 Evolution has never been observed 5.2 Past evidence for evolution has been overturned 5.3 Evolution's evidence is unreliable or inconsistent 6 Objections to evolution's plausibility 6.1 Life is too unlikely to arise by chance 6.2 Evolution does not explain certain human behaviors 7 Objections to evolution's possibility 7.1 Evolution cannot create complex structures 7.2 Evolution cannot create information 7.3 Evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics 8 Objections to evolution's morality 8.1 Evolution says that humans are animals 8.2 Evolution leads to immorality and social ills 8.3 Evolution leads to atheism
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  BurnTheShips

  I read today that they found soft tissue in a T-Rex bone.

  70 million years old.

  Soft tissue.
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  hamilcarr

  Burn,

  I haven't discovered any objection to evolution.

  Rather the contrary:

  "The vessels and contents are similar in all respects to blood vessels recovered from ... ostrich bone," they reported in a paper bring published Friday in the journal Science.

  Micro or macro?

  hamilcarr
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  hamilcarr

  Hmm, I see. And humans are depilated apes, aren't they?

  h.
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  marmot

  Burn, if you read up on that discovery (which was made over a year ago) you'd understand that it isn't "soft tissue" per se but a form of highly detailed fossil that still shows cellular structures.
  
  I'm not entirely sold on ALL the aspects of evolutionary theory but the basic idea is sound. Just like I don't agree with all forms of quantum string theory, but I do agree that gravity exists.
  
  On the other hand the biblical creation story is just another myth in my eyes.
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  maximumtool

  Hamilcarr,

  The process of the scientific method always leaves the door open for concrete objection to evolution, or any other scientific theory for that matter.

  In order to have a legitimate objection to evolution, in this case I assume you mean biological evolution, someone would have to take a look at currently established factual data and establish a hypothesis regarding either its origin or nature that would be partially or entirely contrary to the explanations offered by the theory of evolution.

  The hypothesis would then have to be tested and if the new hypothesis were validated by the successful completion of appropriate tests then the theory of evolution would either be modified, as has happened repeatedly, or would be discarded which at this point would be highly unlikely. And obviously, as the theory of evolution continually becomes more refined and more firmly established more thorough and detailed testing would be required of any hypothesis that would be considered as a legitimate alternate explanation for an established set of facts.

  If your question could better be summed up by asking, "are there any more thoughtless and utterly ignorant unresearched and non-fact-based complaints against the theory of evolution then what is contained in this comparatively short list", the answer to that is "yes".