Creation AND Evolution?

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
The theory of evolution does not involve any "intelligent direction" and mutations do not "work towards" anything. Instead, the process is directed by natural selection.

Do you believe life started from non-living material, then evolution took that life and formed it over a long period of time due to natural selection? The point BEING it had to happen just as if you dropped a rock it would fall to the ground due to gravity?

Originally posted by @kellyjay
Do you believe life started from non-living material, then evolution took that life and formed it over a long period of time due to natural selection? The point BEING it had to happen just as if you dropped a rock it would fall to the ground due to gravity?

Life on Earth emerged approximately 4 billion years ago, not long after the Earth itself formed.

Originally posted by @kellyjay
When you look at models that project what we see today and apply them to what might have occurred millions of years ago, that is faith nothing more.

As a matter of fact, what happened in the past leaves traces in the present.

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
Life on Earth emerged approximately 4 billion years ago, not long after the Earth itself formed.

That's not what he asked you. Do you struggle to understand what people are asking you? Would you prefer if we spoke German?

Originally posted by @dj2becker
That's not what he asked you. Do you struggle to understand what people are asking you? Would you prefer if we spoke German?

As opposed to jibberish?

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
As opposed to jibberish?

If you want to refer to your own language as jibberish, be my guest.

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
As a matter of fact, what happened in the past leaves traces in the present.

What happened a day or two ago maybe. A week or a year ago, possibly. Billions of years ago, not so much.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
What happened a day or two ago maybe. A week or a year ago, possibly. Billions of years ago, not so much.

As a matter of fact, it does. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
As a matter of fact, it does. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

😴

Maybe if you read your own link you would notice that the scientific method requires you to reproduce your data in a lab.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
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Maybe if you read your own link you would notice that the scientific method requires you to reproduce your data in a lab.

As a matter of fact, it does not. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
As a matter of fact, it does not. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

As a matter of fact it does. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility

And from your own link:

" reproducibility can have the effect of diminishing the potentially harmful effects of circumstance, and to a degree, personal bias. For example, pre-existing beliefs can alter the interpretation of results, as in confirmation bias; this is a heuristic that leads a person with a particular belief to see things as reinforcing their belief, even if another observer might disagree (in other words, people tend to observe what they expect to observe)."

Your confirmation bias is clearly showing...

Originally posted by @dj2becker
As a matter of fact it does. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility

And from your own link:

" reproducibility can have the effect of diminishing the potentially harmful effects of circumstance, and to a degree, personal bias. For example, pre-existing beliefs can alter the interpretation of results, as in confirmation bia ...[text shortened]... e tend to observe what they expect to observe)."

Your confirmation bias is clearly showing...

In what way specifically is my alleged confirmation bias showing?

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
Life on Earth emerged approximately 4 billion years ago, not long after the Earth itself formed.

So you say

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
As a matter of fact, what happened in the past leaves traces in the present.

Not disputing that however nothing done today would necessarily be how it was done in the beginning millions of years ago. So claiming we can see something today is not applicable millions of years ago.

Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
As a matter of fact, what happened in the past leaves traces in the present.

You have faith!