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Posted by: WinyPit82
Posted by: werdnaz
The problem is, though most people slap the phrase "it could be wrong" into the face of others, there is the chance of such proposals being correct. Evolution is a theory that is an idea that has based on observation of evidence, and from what I have stated, though the evidence is there, Darwin's interperetation of the evidence could be very wrong.
Darwin wasn't the only one to examine evolutionary evidence, as countless other scientists have critiqued and examined it, as well. Of course there is a chance of his interpretation of the evidence being incorrect, but when all available evidence, from various aspects of nature, point to one concept synchronously, it shouldn't be at all surprising that it is accepted as scientific truth.
The progression of time is not directly correlated to an advance in scientific understanding. As time progressed in the nineteenth century, people learnt more and more about the wave like nature of light, however this idea was smashed by the photoelectric effect and Einstein. Though we appear to learn more about the universe, the initial interperatations of the data we have collected may be absolutely false, despite our belief that we know more about the universe than we previously did.
Your argument is reliant on the assertion that an absolutely staggering, Earth-shattering discover that will rewrite every biological fact and theory is likely to be made. The problem is that this reliance has no basis, it is purely based on conjecture. When such a discovery is made, I'll listen to you. However, until you can do that, you're not standing on solid ground.
Misinterpretation of data can go a long way, I agree with you. But what you fail to acknowledge is that the likelihood of this occurring in the modern age with a concept that is so well understood, simply isn't as high as you think it is. It's on the level of assuming that there's a decent chance that the Heart doesn't pump out blood throughout the body because there's a chance some ridiculous discovery will be made showing otherwise.
Though many scientific notions haven't been proved wrong and are correct, there are some that are not correct. The question is whether you find evolution to be among the former scientific notions or the latter
It's profoundly obvious that evolution is the most well-founded explanation for the development of life on Earth.
As I said, it is evolution is the best theory we have, but I still regard it as false. I agree that there has not been any Earth-shattering discoveries of late that prove evolution wrong, but as I have listed in another post, evolution is not without several major flaws, which inclines me to go against it.
The problem with the scientific revolutions is that they have begun by undermining a belief which the masses assume to be fact. Here I state the danger of assuming that evolution is not a belief, and by thinking that man DID get to the way it is now by evolution is a fact, we are rushing to conclusions too quickly, and we are in danger of facing many years of wasted time simply because we made a false assumption.
Evolution is generally accepted as scientific truth, but just because the masses of biologists that agree with Darwin do believe it, doesn't mean that it is not false as a theory
[Edited on 12.26.2012 11:03 PM PST]