Do you believe in creation or evolution?

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Just pointing out, that if there was plenty of 'evidence' it would no longer be a theory.

If there was some much evidence why would they keep trying to fabricate it?

If there was a perfect fossil record, then there would be something truly wrong. It is not as though over hundreds of millions of years the corpses of creatures were archived and kept in perfect underground crypts. If anything we are lucky enough to have the pieces of the jigsaw that we have. Thus it must remain a theory as that is a reasonable and scientific thing to do.

There would be millions of these in between/ transitional fossils.

Evolution doesn't even hold up to the scientific method of being able to be observed, measured and repeated.

[goti71]

Just pointing out, that if there was plenty of 'evidence' it would no longer be a theory.

If there was some much evidence why would they keep trying to fabricate it?

If there was a perfect fossil record, then there would be something truly wrong. It is not as though over hundreds of millions of years the corpses of creatures were archived and kept in perfect underground crypts. If anything we are lucky enough to have the pieces of the jigsaw that we have. Thus it must remain a theory as that is a reasonable and scientific thing to do.

There would be millions of these in between/ transitional fossils.

Evolution doesn't even hold up to the scientific method of being able to be observed, measured and repeated.

A crucial aspect to this matter is that the actual meaning of the word theory in a scientific sense (based on observation and on the scientific method) doesn't have anything to do with its meaning in common parlance; the colloquial meaning of theory would be equivalent to the concept of a mere hypothesis or conjecture in science.

So in science, a theory is formulated precisely because there is evidence to support it.

And it can be observed and measured too; a greater genetic difference is observed between species, the more apart they are .

And repeated; mutation/selective pressure on bacteria and viruses leading to different strains, etc.


So even if the fossil record disappeared in a puff of smoke, the genetic evidence would lead to the same conclusions (branching apart more and more the further apart two species are in evolution).

And all fossils are transitional. Even the bones in the graveyard are transitional.


That's just my basic understanding of it.