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Originally posted by Moses
You can't apply any type of environmental stress to a lizard and expect to get a bird. Evolution is non-directional and not likely to be genetically repeatable.
The idea than man evolved from apes is a theory, but genetic evolution is a demonstrable fact.
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No argument from me, Moses. Well, the only difference would be one of my loose use of definitions: evolution is a theory, as long as we define "theory" as an idea that we have proposed, but aren't sure about. When I said "evolution," I was referring to the philosophy which espouses that lizards
did become birds. I will gladly agree that, just like bacteria, lizards change from generation to generation. I will also say that lizards, like bacteria, should never become birds, no matter how many generations you wait.
Supe -- you always seem to force me to think. I may have to stop reading your posts, it just hurts too much.
I think I'll stand on my original position: truth is a constant. If something appears to be violating what we think is truth, we just don't have enough understanding to know what truth is. There is still a constant, there is some truth, some explainable reason for currently unexplainable phenomena which will always be constant and definable -- but we may not ever understand it. That doesn't make the truth any less true, it just means we don't understand it.
Did that make sense, or do I need more caffeine?
Dan