(August 5, 2014 at 7:34 am)Brakeman Wrote: The mere fact that we can't tell visually the difference between bird, bat, cat, canine, bovine, or human blood from one another is a strong indicator of similarity and begs the question of why god only had one basic blueprint and had to make all of his creations using adaptations of it. It would seem that a true magic god could have made some amazing variety. Multiple methods of synthesizing energy from the sunlight is one. nuclear metabolism is another. Evolutions explains this copycat nature, god magic does not.I think it's important to note that while a powerful and magical god can "explain" any discovery, evolution requires certain things to be evident in order to remain a viable theory. As the old saying goes, a rabbit fossil in the Cambrian layer, or something similarly jarring, could at least force a complete reassessment of the theory. But the theory has held up so far through decades of new discoveries and new knowledge and additional testing and research. That's significant.
We may not be able to disprove god, but god seems incapable of disproving evolution. I think the latter is the more telling of the two.
"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
