(December 4, 2008 at 6:55 pm)CoxRox Wrote: I thought evolution was based on the theory that the big bang caused 'matter' to spew out into space. This formed planets, etc. The base elements on the planets, coupled with the electricity, sun etc, reacted with these elements to form things like amino acids and eventually enough 'building blocks' were formed to start binding together and forming life forms? Surely this is the fore-runner of evolution?
Absolutely. But all of those things aren't evolution.
If we said evolution was "the story of the universe", then by disproving the something such as singularity, we would be able to say "I disproved evolution". But in reality, evolution is the gradual change in species over time, and has nothing to say about singularities.
Evolution slots in perfectly with all of these other theories, but it is still a seperate phenonema.
Okay this might explain what I mean a little better.
Ideas:
"Stripey men are all rich"
"Purple women are all rich"
*does tests*
New evidence shows that
"Stripey men are all poor"
But this doesn't mean that the statement about purple women was false? Because it is a seperate statement dealing with a seperate issue (even if they sometimes affect each other).
Poor analogy, I fail
