(December 27, 2013 at 5:46 pm)Ksa Wrote: Dr. Zakir Naik's argument is that the theory of evolution is a THEORY. Not Fact. He said in a speech: "Have you heard about the FACT of evolution? NO it's the THEORY of evolution. Why THEORY? Because there's no proof."
The idiotic argument of Dr. Zakir Naik is that, eventhough human ancestors like homo abilis and homo erectus were discovered, there's nothing in between. And when something in between them is discovered he says there's nothing in between them and what was recently discovered. So it's just dishonest behavior, don't get fooled by that.
Creationists who mangle the word "theory" like this are always so smug, like they've hit on some unanswerable problem for the scientific community, when all they have done is demonstrate that they don't understand what the word means in a scientific context.
Of course, they get away with it because (1) their target audience is usually functionally illiterate when it comes to the subject and don't know better and (2) they simply keep repeating the lie in venue after venue, no matter how many times they have been corrected.
I sometimes wonder if we will ever be rid of this gross misunderstanding of evolution. Even if people stopped riding their religious hobby horses in a single generation, I suspect there will always be people who just can't/won't wrap their heads around it.
