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Originally Posted by CastleBravo
Darwin's work is theory, yes? That means proof is necessary.
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Not exactly, but testing is necessary (to which religions are totally hostile, they are not to be tested or being asked questions about
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they are just to be believed). Theories however do not stay unchanged forever, they are being tested, and checked for the validity of predictions they may make, and if they are in contradiction to other results of the scientific process. Science is in constant shifting, it changes constantly. But it does not give you the ultimate answers to the universe, just temporary assumptions that fit better into the canon of observations made so far than other assumptions or hallucinations from your last night being drunk in the pub, and creating lesser contradiction with other observations. Science in principal is nothing else than putting observations into an arbitrary order like miniatures are being put on the shelve accoridng to the will of the collector, where this order occasionally gets corrected due to the latest observations, and defining also the methodology by which we try to win new observation results. Science is totally different than religion, because religions just claims something, never makes its claims object of testing or analysis, and rule that these claims should have everlasting validity. religion does all the time what it (wrongly) accuses science of.
As astrophysicist Timothy Ferris put it: "We are not dealing with the universe 'in front of us', which will remain an eternal mystery for us, but we deal with a
model of the universethat we can create inside our heads as we like. For all of us, not cosmos itself is the object of our examination, but it's dance with our mind." (translated from the German translation).
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Yet the Bible is believed by multidudes, including those who have read Darwin.
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That is not evidence either! Hear-say and rumours, and that many people mumble and believe something, is no argument. It says nothing about that what they believe is right or wrong. It just means that they beolieve something and mistake believing with knowing.