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Originally posted by Mike33
Nysus, will tackle this later. It's late here
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I will re-iterate. Science is the key as far as I'm concerned. I ONLY take issue with evolutionary theory. None of us are going to the stake because none of us are religious. This was merely a learning exercise. Thanks, and g'night phew
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Okay, cool!
Just keep in mind, evolution doesn't require science, evolution is a definition of a process that says,
1. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. See Synonyms at development.
2. a) The process of developing. b) Gradual development.
3. Biology. a) Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species. b) The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.
4. A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements.
5. Mathematics. The extraction of a root of a quantity.
A definition doesn't require belief or not, it's just a definition of describing something, what all of the above states.
Good old Google for evolution resulted in this URL;
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evol...efinition.html
A quote from 1986 pretty well describes all variations of evolution;
"In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual. The ontogeny of an individual is not considered evolution; individual organisms do not evolve. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next. Biological evolution may be slight or substantial; it embraces everything from slight changes in the proportion of different alleles within a population (such as those determining blood types) to the successive alterations that led from the earliest protoorganism to snails, bees, giraffes, and dandelions."
- Douglas J. Futuyma in Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates 1986
Hope this helps some.
Matt