Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 18, 2025, 12:57 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Non-Evolutionists?
#43
RE: Non-Evolutionists?
(December 19, 2014 at 10:35 pm)MissR Wrote: Isn't the Big Bang Theory different than evolution? I am open to learning of new ways that we are therefore existing. But I threw the god theory out the window, too.
The two are completely different. The term "big bang" is a reference to what physicists believe was the initial expansion that created the universe. Initially used to mock the idea, it has since become the common reference to it.

Abiogenesis refers to the origins of life, and (this is my understanding) to date there seems to be bits and pieces of data that cannot be fit into a coherent whole yet. Due to the lack of both the exact conditions and the necessary time scales, we may never figure it out.

Evolution refers to two things: the process by which changes in the genetic code of living things effect changes to their offspring/descendants, and how this process has led to the diversity of life on the planet. The first is a fact; it is an observed phenomena that is well understood by scientists and researchers, seeing as it forms the basis of genetics and plays a huge part in biology and medicine. The second is a theory that explains the ways in which the process produced all of the different life forms, by tracing their lineage and finding the links between them.

The theory of evolution is subject to modification and revision, but at this point the idea of simply dismissing it would make no sense, as it has clear support through many discoveries and testing.
"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
Reply



Messages In This Thread
Non-Evolutionists? - by JaceDeanLove - December 15, 2014 at 7:43 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Alex K - December 15, 2014 at 7:45 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 15, 2014 at 7:46 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Minimalist - December 15, 2014 at 7:47 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Chad32 - December 15, 2014 at 7:48 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by IATIA - December 15, 2014 at 9:45 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Tonus - December 15, 2014 at 9:46 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by The Valkyrie - December 15, 2014 at 9:48 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by IATIA - December 15, 2014 at 9:54 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Chad32 - December 15, 2014 at 9:50 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 15, 2014 at 10:27 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Elskidor - December 15, 2014 at 8:00 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Spooky - December 15, 2014 at 8:05 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Elskidor - December 15, 2014 at 8:11 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Spooky - December 15, 2014 at 8:35 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Darkstar - December 15, 2014 at 9:16 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by StealthySkeptic - December 15, 2014 at 10:36 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by SteelCurtain - December 15, 2014 at 9:31 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by SteelCurtain - December 15, 2014 at 9:54 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by The Valkyrie - December 15, 2014 at 9:55 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Neo-Scholastic - December 15, 2014 at 10:25 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by The Valkyrie - December 15, 2014 at 10:31 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Cato - December 15, 2014 at 10:37 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by IATIA - December 15, 2014 at 10:45 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Alex K - December 16, 2014 at 3:34 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Cato - December 16, 2014 at 6:58 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Alex K - December 16, 2014 at 7:03 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Fidel_Castronaut - December 16, 2014 at 5:12 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Chas - December 16, 2014 at 8:35 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by dyresand - December 15, 2014 at 11:59 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by robvalue - December 16, 2014 at 1:20 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Aoi Magi - December 16, 2014 at 1:56 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by robvalue - December 16, 2014 at 5:25 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Alex K - December 16, 2014 at 5:26 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by robvalue - December 16, 2014 at 5:30 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Tombochan - December 16, 2014 at 1:09 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by MissR - December 19, 2014 at 10:35 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Tonus - December 20, 2014 at 9:48 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Simon Moon - December 20, 2014 at 4:22 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Chad32 - December 19, 2014 at 10:37 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Alex K - December 20, 2014 at 4:51 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Chad32 - December 20, 2014 at 9:44 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by robvalue - December 20, 2014 at 4:36 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by robvalue - December 20, 2014 at 7:47 am
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Elskidor - December 20, 2014 at 2:35 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by IATIA - December 20, 2014 at 1:45 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by Chad32 - December 20, 2014 at 2:03 pm
RE: Non-Evolutionists? - by robvalue - December 20, 2014 at 2:36 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Abiogenesis ("Chemical Evolution"): Did Life come from Non-Life by Pure Chance. Nishant Xavier 55 6753 August 6, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Last Post: Thumpalumpacus
  British Non-Catholic Historian on Historical Longevity of the Roman Catholic Church. Nishant Xavier 36 3825 August 6, 2023 at 4:48 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  Atheists: I have tips of advice why you are a hated non religious dogmatic group inUS Rinni92 13 4292 August 5, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Last Post: Sal
  More than half of the Uk say they are non-religious downbeatplumb 9 3411 September 5, 2017 at 5:04 pm
Last Post: Anomalocaris
Exclamation new "Cult of 'Non-Beliefism' " aka (the state of being "unlocked") ProgrammingGodJordan 142 24135 January 2, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Last Post: Cyberman
  A non-aggressive religion? rado84 24 5881 November 28, 2016 at 12:09 am
Last Post: Brian37
  A Non-Religious Person's Meaning in Life and Death AFTT47 17 5937 January 12, 2016 at 12:52 am
Last Post: Whateverist
  Worst Thing Said to You for Being a Non-believer Strider 18 10026 October 12, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  A Religion for the Non Religious Catholic_Lady 75 20581 July 20, 2015 at 12:21 pm
Last Post: Catholic_Lady
  Atheists & non religious conspiracies. OP/ED Brian37 13 3623 June 4, 2015 at 11:04 am
Last Post: Dystopia



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)