(August 14, 2010 at 11:08 am)Tiberius Wrote:(August 14, 2010 at 10:57 am)theophilus Wrote: I used to believe in evolution because I thought that it had been scientifically proven.There is no such thing as "scientific proof". It is a misnomer. Nothing in science is ever proven; only established as very probable through the construction and testing of hypotheses, which become theories upon validation.
Gravity hasn't been scientifically proven, nor have the laws of thermodynamics, the Big Bang theory, or *insert theory here*.
Yes, there are alternative ideas to explain the evidence, but none of them explain all of the evidence. There are always problems and gaps that just don't match what we observe in reality. The theory of evolution is the only theory to date that explains all the evidence in a justifiable way.
By the way, your "realization" that God wouldn't have created the world through death and suffering just reveals your bias and closed-mindedness on this issue. Have you considered that God didn't create the world, and that therefore there are no problems that evolution poses?
Very well put.
Science is not about proof. Proof is impossible.
All we can ask for is support, thats evidence to support theories that are well stated and capable of falsification.
The theory of evolution was produced at a time when there was very little experimental evidence to support it.
Everything produced since Darwin has supported Darwin even the mechanism by which evolution can works genetically something Darwin had no idea of (although he knew of Mendel's works) yet he produced a theory that has been supported by every reasonable piece of scientific research since.
The work of Darwin just cant be underestimated.
Science isn't about 'proof' but it is about using evidence and questioning any theory that has no evidence or ignores evidence.
Explanation without evidence is ignorant.
Therefore a belief without evidence is ignorant.
