(December 2, 2018 at 7:55 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Sounds like deceptive thinking on your part.
No, just the simplest example that I could churn out quickly. Few people have a problem accepting scientific theories on most topics, but evolution gets raked over the coals because it impinges on certain creation myths. If people harboured the same distrust for physics that they do for evolution then half of the US would still be travelling by horse and buggy.
Quote:I never said to stop looking it up, but anybody who says it's not complicated would be full of something, because it is. That's why "science" establishes information through steps, then we refine those steps, add additional steps, and draw new data to interpret.
Yes, the fine details will require a PhD and a lifetime working on the topic. For the basics you can get by with "Descent With Modification".
Quote:Also, I don't have a problem with the term "evolution", but first we need to define what we mean by it, because there are multiple types/versions floating around. If you don't do that, then you risk "bait and switch" tactics, and there you go with things becoming more complicated again. Why? Because we didn't approach something with care.
I'm aware of only one type of evolution that's accepted by the scientific community. You can get into PE vs. neo-Darwinianism but that's fine-level detail that you don't need for the basics. TE introduces unfalsifiable and unnecessary complications and ID is just creationism with a poor disguise.