RE: Abiogenesis is impossible
May 19, 2014 at 8:36 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2014 at 8:37 pm by Tonus.)
(May 19, 2014 at 8:14 pm)snowtracks Wrote:There is nothing to refute. Unlike creationists, real scientists are willing to put their theories to the test. Incomplete or sloppy work is therefore exposed and results can be discarded or must be supported via other data and research, which itself can be tested. In doing so, we learn more and get closer to the truth.(May 19, 2014 at 11:09 am)Tonus Wrote: What??? A Christian using a single source that's out-of-date?no postings to refute it, so it stands, proudly.
You did notice that scientists did not use this one paper to dismiss evolution at all, didn't you? Or perhaps you did, which is why your summary is so misleading and your conclusion so wrong. I realize that at this point you've given up and are just flinging poo at the wall, but a person might expect you to actually read the material you are partially quoting and perhaps learn something, if even by accident.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
