RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 18, 2013 at 8:09 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2013 at 8:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The trouble with the word belief, is the manner in which it has been used (and the subject to which it has been applied). If, by belief, some parity is to be drawn between gnomes and evolution then the word is inapplicable. If not (if, say someone wanted to argue that everything was a belief), the term is rendered meaningless.
I don't believe in evolution any more than I believe in red. No belief is required. Further, no belief is required for any theory that explains evolution - as they are each nothing more than an explanation for an observed fact - each demonstrable, quantifiable, and very well evidenced. Just to put a nail in the coffin- no belief is required for any evolutionary history either - as they are not meant to be an ironclad description of how things happened, merely how they could have happened - insofar as the evidence we have available tells the tale.
I don't believe in evolution any more than I believe in red. No belief is required. Further, no belief is required for any theory that explains evolution - as they are each nothing more than an explanation for an observed fact - each demonstrable, quantifiable, and very well evidenced. Just to put a nail in the coffin- no belief is required for any evolutionary history either - as they are not meant to be an ironclad description of how things happened, merely how they could have happened - insofar as the evidence we have available tells the tale.
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