thunder_runner32 wrote:EVOLUTION IS NOT SCIENCE, it is nothing more than another religion. It is a guess at something that cannot be tested, experimented, or anything else. It is a big guess that is sugar coated with "science" The only reason anyone still believes it is because it is the only thing that they can claim as evidence to the nonexistance of God. They want to do whatever they want, and if the "logical thought" b.s of "science" says that there doesn't have to be a God, everyone will jump on board.
The basic theory of evolution, inspired by countless observations of nature both in the past and the present, consists of two and only two principles, which are pretty much self-evident:
1. In large populations, over long periods of time, genetic characteristics which have a survival value come to dominate the gene pool, and crowd out competing traits which provide less survival advantage.
2. Mutation - from time to time a mistake is made in inheritance, and once in a blue moon it is beneficial. Thus, there is a source of new traits in a gene pool.
Therefore, over long periods of time, a species will become better able to survive in its environmnt and compete with predators and competitors. Generally this means a continuing increase in complexity. This view of nature is kind of superficially obvious, but is also visible directly for any species with short generations, e.g. the way bacteria develop immunity to medicine. Of course, your crowd simply labels any situation in which you can see evolution functioning in your face as "micro-evolution." It's science. It is studied by scientists. There is a huge amount of accumulated evidence being studied by a large number of peope. But you stick to your ancient text written thousands of years ago. Now that's real science.
