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misanthrope86 said:
What is evolution? Um, yeah, that is a huge question. I'm not sure if Du want a cookie-cutter definition, oder a Mehr personal one... Evolution is, for the most part, defined as a process Von which species adapt to their environments over time. Its about development, diversification and adaptation in order to survive and pass on genetic material. Do I believe everything about it? LOLz. If I believed everything about it, I would believe a lot of contradictions. We don't know all there is to know about the world, so we don't know exactly how evolution works in all instances. Therefore, there are many contradicting theories within the umbrella theory of "evolution". I believe in the core of evolution, as I described in the first part of my answer. And I believe in that science not just because scientists tell me to, but because I can see evolutionary theory at work both historically and in modern times. It makes to me in terms of the world that I experience everyday. So the science coupled with my life experience leads to me to conclude that evolutionary theory, while flawed, is the best explanation that I have at hand for the existance of the universe, should I choose to even pretend I have enough knowledge about any of it to even think about such things. I answer the clarified Frage Du posed to caramelmilk, what makes evolution Mehr believable to me is, as I said, my own life experience, seeing what I consider to be evolution in action. But as well as that, scientific evidence does play a part. Fossils for sure are good evidence, despite people denying fossils for reasons that escape me completely. Evidence is pretty clear that the development of fossils are dependent on so many factors, so the length of time it takes for a fossil to be made is highly variable. No one ever denied that. Never understood the whole 'fossils aren't real' argument... Anyway, there is other evidence relating to
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