(September 18, 2015 at 3:41 pm)alpha male Wrote: I consider evidence to be fulfilled risky, objectively testable, falsifiable predictions.
Here's a good discussion of evidence:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/...l#evidence
Try genetics.
Endogenous retrovirus scars, transpositional elements, frame-shift mutations... the list goes on and on.
I can understand you are skeptical of nonbelievers as a source of information on science, so if you want to try an Evangelical Christian source for absolute, unquestionable proofs of evolution, I have a recommendation.
The director of the Human Genome Project, Dr. Francis S. Collins, wrote a book about it called The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, which does an excellent job covering the basic facts of genetics and how it relates to evolution, and why you can still be an evangelical Christian and a scientist.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
