(March 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Hey, Huggies. Are you ever going to address this?!?Since the conversation moved back on topic, I felt responding to the previous posts would probably be seen as "derailing" the thread, so I chose to leave it alone.
I'll answer you, but first let me address Chief Muppet #1
(March 13, 2015 at 3:37 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:The word "species" has been around since the 14th century, whether or not science regards that as the definition is irrelevant. Scientists don't get carte blanche to redefine a word.(March 12, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/species
Full Definition of SPECIES
1 a : kind, sort
Pretty sure that is 1) not the entire definition, and 2) not what science regards as a species.
Dumbfuck.
(March 12, 2015 at 5:25 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: I know you'll ignore this as you've ignored everything else I've said that you've been unable to refute, but I'll try anyway...Aeronautics is a fact, but we don't use theory to explain how an airplane flies.
Scientific theories are not (as you faithers would have us believe) on par with guessing. "But, it's just a theory!!!1!11!!!"
No, a scientific theory is the framework upon which the facts pertaining to said theory are hung.
Gravity is a fact.
Germs that spread disease are a fact.
Evolution is a fact.
Gravitational theory is how we explain our understating of how gravity works.
Germ theory is how we explain our understating of how germs spread disease.
Evolutionary theory is how we explain our understating of how evolution works.
Please stop using the word theory in a scientific context as if it means "wild assed guess." It makes you look so incredibly ignorant that many will refuse to take you seriously.
Or, are you so stupid that you put germ theory and gravitational theory on the same "it's just a wild assed guess" level as you do evolutionary theory?!?
The first step in the scientific method is observation, as I said one species evolving into a completely different species (meaning unable to produce offspring) has never been observed.
examples of speciation do not count because the definition of species means.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/species
Quote:speciesmeaning "speciation" is just a genetic variation of the same species, that are isolated from breeding with each other.
2. Biology. the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus, regarded as the basic category of biological classification, composed of related individuals that resemble one another, are able to breed among themselves, but are not able to breed with members of another species.
Developing a new breed of Dog for example is "speciation" by definition.
Yet when it come to humans, many nationalities are genetically different, yet were not considered to have "speciated", why is this? aren't we (according to science) part of the evolutionary process just like the animals?
Humans have been on this planet (again, according to science) 200,000 years, but apparently that's not long enough to develop even a sub species....
(March 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: The buy-bull also puts bats with the birds.I'm not sure i follow you on this one.