[thechat] Mythology was comics

[Norman Bunn]

I, like you, have never seen the statement by Darwin.  I suspect it is an
urban legend thought up by some "well-meaning" people to debunk the theory.
However, I cannot say that genetics has proven natural selection.  While I
will buy into adaptation as a reasonable result of natural selection, it is
more difficult to apply it to wholesale species changes.  It is interesting
that the fossil record shows no indisputable instances of missing links (to
my knowledge) when you would think that there certainly would be.  Heck, we
can't even locate where one species originated!

While evolution is a theory on how life has come to be, it does not tell us
why anything is, much less life iteslf.  Given that as best we can tell
something cannot create itself out of nothing, the concept of a
self-existent creative entity is quite logical.  To me thinking that things
just happened is quite illogical.  To say that any creation myth could be
true, thus all of them must be false is also illogical to me.

Is it just me, or am I starting to sound like a Christian Vulcan? :)

Norman

> <snip>
> And concerning whether or not science is a religion, I don't know.
> But I do know that Evolution is still classified as a theory, not
> a fact, and even Darwin publicly stated that he regretted publishing
> such an obviously inaccurate theory.
> </snip>
>
> and just how exactly is it "obviously inaccurate"? Genetics has shown
> natural selection to be true. Evolution is still called a Theory simply
> because we have not gathered a sufficient amount of facts to call it
proven.
> But a Theory has many supporting facts.
>
> Creationism on the other hand is entirely a myth, there is not one single
> provable fact that it ever occurred. And you can't use the fact that the
> Earth exists to prove that it was created the way you say or else EVERY
> single other creation myth (Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Indian,
Chinese,
> et al) would be true by the same reasoning.
>
> Furthermore I challenge you to provide any proof that Darwin made that
> statement since in all my research on the subject I have never seen that
> attributed to him.
>
> Ron