New Kansas law forces teachers to question evolution

[K e r b e r o s]

Well, remember folks that evolution is still just a theory. If it was scientific fact, it still would'nt be referred to as "Darwin's Theory". Now, science has run into some bumps recently, such as how nucleus's of atoms form, and while they might find their answer ... I suggest you keep an open mind to everything because you all don't know everything.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Well, remember folks that evolution is still just a theory. If it was scientific fact, it still would'nt be referred to as "Darwin's Theory".

Actually, that is a fallacy, and one which I falsely belived as well a few years ago, since science isn't my area of study. Scientific theory and the concept of hypothesis are not the same.

In scientific usage, theory is not the opposite of fact. Theories are typically ways of explaining why things happen, usually after the fact that they happen is no longer in scientific dispute. In referring to the "theory of global warming", for example, there is no implication that global warming is not occurring; world temperatures have been measured and are increasing. The "theory of global warming" refers instead to scientific work that explains how and why this has been happening.

Evolution is fact. The theory of evolution is how every little gene works in the process, etc.

Bringing up potential 'maybe' future evidence is also a bad technique. Maybe the structure of the universe will rewrite itself? Maybe aliens fire de-evolution beams at the Earth, etc.

 

[Raeven0]

when even the Catholics deny intelligent design, something is really wrong here.

I take no responsibility for the doctrines of my misguided Catholic brothers.

I say: evolution is undeniable, proven fact. Evolution as the origin of all current life beginning with a complex of proteins some indeterminate constantly-shifting length of time ago is debatable. I say teach evolution as the supposed but debatable origin of all current life. Religion has no place in public school, even if we do profess to be a nation under God.

 

[Absinthe]

The theory of evolution has never attempted to explain the origin of life. That's the thing.

 

[Raeven0]

The theory of evolution has never attempted to explain the origin of life. That's the thing.

Certainly not, but it implies interesting things about the origin of life.

 

[ríomhaire]

The theory of evolution has never attempted to explain the origin of life. That's the thing.

That's because it's not about the origins of life.

 

[Absinthe]

That's because it's not about the origins of life.

Uhhh... That was kinda my point. :|

 

[Tr0n]

But that takes everyone to the start of the whole damn thing...what is the origin of life?

 

[ríomhaire]

But that takes everyone to the start of the whole damn thing...what is the origin of life?

Michrocondrians!

 

[Apos]

The scientific study of the origins of life is known as abiogenesis.

Well, remember folks that evolution is still just a theory.

There is no meaningful utterance in science as "just a theory." Calling something a theory in science is not a measure or comment on its certainty.

If it was scientific fact, it still would'nt be referred to as "Darwin's Theory".

Uh? What? It IS scientific fact.. but I'm not sure what you mean by it being or not being refferred to as Darwin's theory. It's changed a heck of a lot since Darwin.

Now, science has run into some bumps recently, such as how nucleus's of atoms form, and while they might find their answer ... I suggest you keep an open mind to everything because you all don't know everything

Science is the only method whereby the concept of not knowing everything is taken seriously as a core part of the process.

That said, I don't have a clue as to what you think you are talking about: whether the "bumps" part or the thing about how atoms form. Hunh? We've directly observed and caused atoms to form: that's what supercolliders can do.