reply to post by itsthetooth
Your going to have to repost this with the original post, when you just put your reply in there its easy to forget what the question
was.
No, I linked to your post for all to see. The fact that you're denying your own words or you can't remember your own words is incredible. It's like
when you start catching a pathological liar contradicting themselves.
At least your admitting its not all fact now. From what I read about them, it would seem that I'm right on track.
Now? I never stated otherwise. You seem to be confused about the difference between "embraces a plurality of theories and hypotheses" and "wholly
hypothetical".
Look, I respect that you trying to polish a turd, but when parts of this are an hypothesis, thats sort of a clue dont you think.
You seem to be confused about the difference between "embraces a plurality of theories and hypotheses" and "wholly hypothetical". Any scientific
theory that has the breadth of modern evolutionary synthesis can be said to "embraces a plurality of theories and hypotheses". This doesn't make it
less of a scientific theory.
But again, your arguing against something that is not repeatable, as there is no guarantee that evolution will occur, it's not recreatable, as
its not repeatable, and its not predictable, your aren't able to predict what changes will happen before they do, and if you could, you would be able
to tell us what new species we are evolving into.
Evolution is reproducible and the evidence has been provided to you in this thread and others. You're confusing the concepts of something being
predictive and something being predictable. What matters in science, as someone of your academic credentials should already know, is not how much you
can predict on the basis of a theory or how precise those predictions are, but whether the predictions you can make turn out to be right.
Ah, but a scientific theory must be falsifiable, and I wasn't aware that evolution is, exactly which part is?
I provided you a single example of how modern evolutionary synthesis is falsifiable. There are myriad more, the evidence of which have been provided
to you in this thread and others.
Maybe we can clear this up if you first get a better understanding of what a scientific theory is... This answer explains what must happen in
order for a hypothesis to become a scientific theory. If there are parts of evolution that are an hypothesis, then it obviously can't stand as a
scientific theory, unless you have all of a sudden passed that stage.
My concept of what constitutes a scientific theory is demonstrably clearer than yours. Maybe you should try a source other than "wiki.answers.com",
which doesn't have any citation attached to it.
Can you please explain to me the test that is used on something that is not predictable? How are they going to test it when it appears to be
random.
You're confusing the concepts of something being predictive and something being predictable. What matters in science, as someone of your academic
credentials should already know, is not how much you can predict on the basis of a theory or how precise those predictions are, but whether the
predictions you can make turn out to be right.
I don't recall any, and if there were any, they would have also of been able to identify exactly what was making the changes, and also realize
that it's another force and not just random changes.
It's not my problem that you don't recall. It's yours.
I dismissed any other tests as they were written to be only hypothetical.
You seem to be confused about the difference between "embraces a plurality of theories and hypotheses" and "wholly hypothetical".
I guess where you find evidence and where I find evidence are two different places.
The evidence has been provided to you in this thread and others. You've chosen to reject that evidence in a variety of ways that included everything
except refuting it on a scientific level.
But do any of those others exercise ideas of our existence?
It doesn't matter. You're willing to embrace the Bible as a scientific reference even though its veracity as such was shown to be demonstrably wrong
hundreds of years prior to the theory of evolution.
Actually quite the opposite, it is evolution that has taken the word and placed a double meaning on it, to support the idea of evolution. Not
the other way around.
By all means, show the existence of a definition of adaptation in a scientific context that predates its use in relation to evolution. Since that what
you're claiming.