"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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: "Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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: "Arny Krueger" wrote in message
: news : "Schizoid Man" wrote in message
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: Every six months or so another evolution controversy emerges from
: Georgia.
: Last year, the education chief has proposed replacing the word
: 'evolution' with the laughable phrase 'changes over time' in school
: textbooks.
:
: So, you're saying that the phrase "changes over time" misrepresents
: the word evolution?
:
: **Evolution describes the process nicely. Anything else is just a
: fairy tale and does not belong as part of any education system.
:
: No answer to the question that was asked.
:
: This year, it's the Cobb County 'Evolution is a theory' stickers.
:
: So, you're saying that evolution is not a theory while newtonian
: physics is a theory?
:
: **Evolution is a fact, not a theory.
:
: Trevor, facts and theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive. They tend
: to be in some sense orthogonal. IOW, the theory gives some idea of how or
: why something happens, while facts relate to specific things that happened
: in the past.
:
: Gravity is a theory relating to forces between objects. It is a relevant
: fact that the last object I released some distance above the floor, shortly
: fell to the floor.
:
: Changes over time would be an example of fact(s), while Evolution is a
: theory that explains changes over time. Strictly speaking, Evolution will
: never be itself a fact. It will always be a theory. Now it can be factual,
: but that is still not the same as being a fact.
:
: Darwin proposed the Theory of
: Natural Selection, to explain the FACT of evolution.
:
: No, Evolution will always be a theory. Observable changes over time can be
: facts.
:
: Newtonian Physics was proven incorrect by Einsteinian Physics.
:
: No, it was modified by Einsteinian physics. When the appropriate velocities
: are zero, einsteinian theories and Newtonian theories give the identical
: same results.
:
: Since Evolution, Einsteinian physics, and Newtonian Physics are all
: scientific theories, they are and always will be provisional. That means
: that at any time, they may be modified by some other finding of Science.
:

Science is the description in some formal language that, to the best of
present knowledge,gives the 'best fit' for describing and predicting
observable
phenomena.

Coherency dictates that elements within the body of scientific theories
should not lead to contradictory results. This is where several aspects
of the Darwinistic theory , in it's present form, simply do not hold.
For one, a "survival of the fittest" paradigma cannot begin to account
for, say, the development of biological structures as complex as the eye:
from no eye to fully functioning eye at no point along that long,
long
trajectory is there any 'survival bonus value' !!
So, while "survival of the fittest" may be a necessary element, it *cannot*
be the only evolution-driving 'force'.
Then there are all kinds of problems, from Shannon's information theory
point of view...

(nb this does , of course, not imply that some creationist theory should
therefore be adopted
Rudy