fatbrit

I doubt it. Evolution is not a theory that explains the Big Bang at all.

sir_eccles

Missouri is getting in on the act too, their proposal is utterly ludicrous:

http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking...ro/HB0291I.htm

From: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngu...-pass-are-you/

yellowroom

It's one of the main sticking points I think for fundagelicals to get their heads around - scientists do not "believe" in science the way that a person of faith "believes" in God/deity of choice.

MostlyYank

So why the insistance of treating it as fact-ish as gravity?

Pete

Pulaski

Maybe the federal government needs a specific Science Education Agency then we could use the "segregation of church and state" doctrine to keep the religious wingnuts out of the school laboratory?

Pulaski

Because, like gravity, there are no viable alternative scientific theories to evolution, it explains most of the observed phenomena and isn't irreconcilably contradicted by any of them.

sir_eccles

You either didn't read what I wrote, didn't understand what I wrote or are being a troll.

RoadWarriorFromLP

Do you make a special effort to be this clueless, or does it come to you naturally?

RoadWarriorFromLP

Yep.

And it also helps to illustrate what goes wrong when laypeople confuse their usage of a word with how specialists use it.

The lay use of the term "theory" is quite different from and far less specific than how it is applied to science. Yet the Mostly Yanks of the world insist on refusing to understand the difference.

Macca67

Not 100% accurate. Strictly speaking 'gravity' is still a theory yet we accept it as an acknowledged fact.

MostlyYank

Indeed, and we can predict gravity. Heck I can do it right now.

What I mean regarding evolution is, if we're still prepared to accept that it might change - even radically - why the ridicule if someone dares question it?

And consider, if fitting known facts equals proof there'd be a lot of innocent people in jail.

Pete

RoadWarriorFromLP

Neither you nor your creationist buddies are providing anything that is even vaguely scientific or useful.

You're blowing hot air. You know nothing about this stuff, yet you feel obliged to keep opining even though nothing that you say is of any value.

sir_eccles

Because the people questioning it are not offering a scientific alternative. We laugh at them because "God did it" is not a testable scientific theory. Furthermore, most of the questioning of evolution reveal a complete and utter lack of understanding of what evolution and science in general is.

You can't compare legal proof with scientific proof they are very different processes with very different burdens of proof.

RoadWarriorFromLP

There is a theory of gravity and a law of gravity.

As I understand it, a "law" defines the "what" and the "how", while a "theory" explains the "why". They aren't fundamentally opposed, they just address different aspects of the same phenomenon.

Macca67

There's more than one theory of gravity.