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You seemed to imply I’m making crap up.
Not me. Wrong person.
You seemed to imply I’m making crap up.
LOL. I was a Christian who believed in Creationism.
Not me. Wrong person.
Me too!
Then I went all in with evolution in college. Then I became a lapsed evolutionist once I was exposed to some ‘forbidden literature’ and began to doubt some of the things I learnt.
And now, I’m not sure what I am. But the subject has always fascinated me.
Darwin was not giving a historical account, but the causes for change in species.
That was the simply the mechanism.
Common descent, the fossil record and the rest isn’t an historical account?
What do you call it then?
The terms "evolutionist" and "evolutionism" mean it's a belief, a religion.
So, the challenge is to believe it without being an -ist?
Do you have instructions for this?
Sorry, not sure what the question is. Darwin was trying to describe the mechanism of change in species.
Natural selection acting on random mutations is the pure science: it’s the mechanism.
I’m not sure how you can use the fossil record, as a record in support of a theory, and ‘not’ end up with an historical account.
Officially? They're called biological scientists. There is no belief. Do you believe in theory of computer science? Physics?
So, if I say I don’t believe in evolution—that’s a meaningless statement?
Evolutionary science is a sub-category of biology, btw.
So, if I say I don’t believe in evolution—that’s a meaningless statement?
Evolutionary science is a sub-category of biology, btw.
All science refers to history to some extent. Darwin is not unique.
How so?
How does organic chemistry refer to history?
I think evolution is a basic principle for biology.
Evolution functions as a kind of ‘back drop’ to most of biology. IOW, it’s not necessary to know it in order to understand osmosis or active transport or mitosis or a thousand other etc’s.
It’s its own discipline.
History is whatever happened before, literally.
What happened before the Grignard Reagent got spilled lol?
Explain.
Not really, evolution is presumed in most research in biology.