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Reply to "Removing The "Smoke Screen" From Alleged Bible Discrepancies"

The scientific theory of biological evolution is the central organizing principle of life on earth. What we commonly call Evolution on this forum is a process that results in inheritable changes in a population of organisms (individual organisms don't evolve) via genetic material, over many generations. To biologists, the distinction between "macroevolution" and "microevolution" is utterly arbitrary. Macroevolution is just cumulative microevolution.

All species of organisms on earth have descended from a common ancestor. When scientists say that two species of apes, for example, such as humans and bonobos have evolved from a common ancestor, it means that there have been successive and inherited changes/modifications in those two populations since becoming genetically isolated from one another. To say that humans are related to bonobos does not mean that they are our ancestors or that humans evolved from bonobos. Our common human/bonobo ancestor, from which we evolved, is extinct. Every species living today is fully modern. No living species today is the ancestor to another living species.

Modern fish don't become chickens or horses, but since life evolved from the seas, today's chickens, horses and fish (and humans, giraffes, shrews, etc.) have a common and extinct ancestor that was a sea-dwelling vertebrate (like a fish) hundreds of millions of years ago. If any one reading this can't grasp this concept and how it's different from a fish becoming a horse then it's incumbent upon you to ask questions and/or do some research online or somewhere.

Darwin's research and conclusions were the beginning of our understanding and yet they have withstood heavy scientific scrutiny for over 150 years (...not 200 years) and they still manage to accommodate the latest modern findings. Nothing can top it. Why not? Because it's true. How do we know it's true? Because Darwin's central ideas have generated testable predictions that have been borne out by mountains evidence and discoveries accumulated over a wide spectrum of sciences for a very, very long time. And to this day, every new discovery and surprise finding in any of the life sciences supports and gives more validation to Darwin's theory, while continuing to extend our understanding of all life on earth.

As has been demonstrated on this forum so often, those who reject the scientific fact of Evolution always reference a severe misunderstanding (or purposeful misinformation) of what Evolution actually is. They can't deny something that is actually explainable, demonstrable and testable so instead they resort to illogical and unscientific straw-man caricatures to attack (and look ridiculous in the process).

"Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those newfangled theories." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1864 (or Bill Gray, 2011)

"...ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin, 1871


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