Originally posted by lausey
There is vast amounts of evidence that proves that evolution is a FACT (more specifically, evolution by natural selection). Just look at fossil evidence, DNA evidence, observed evidence of species that have a short life span (e.g. speciation experiments done with fruit flies), and observed evidence with selective breeding of dogs (artificial selection wouldn' n would be quite impressed himself.
All you have to do is look it all up and read about it.
fossil evidence, fossil evidence, plueeeeeez you people practically had to invent a new theory with which to substantiate your old one, that being punctuated equilibrium!, scientific fact!
mutations and experiments on Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) by Dobzhansky resulted in no new species and in every instance the mutated fly was inferior to the parent! scientific fact!
“The clear-cut mutants of Drosophila, with which so much of the classical research in genetics was done, are almost without exception inferior to wild-type flies in viability, fertility, longevity.” - Heredity and the Nature of Man, p. 126.
shall we go on to talk about how the genetic code has built in mechanism which not only resist but repair any damage? scientific fact!
“the life of every organism and its continuity from generation to generation” are preserved “by enzymes that continually repair” genetic damage. “In particular, significant damage to DNA molecules can induce an emergency response in which increased quantities of the repair enzymes are synthesized.” - Scientific American, “Inducible Repair of DNA,” by Paul Howard-Flanders, November 1981, p. 72.
I will not be drawn into another fruitless and pointless discussion about evolution v creation, to term it a fact was stepping over the line, it is indeed an act of faith, a greater leap of faith in fact that to profess believe in a creator! let us offer up incense to Darwins effigy, sing the hymns of Dawkins and read from our sacred text, the God delusion - atheism is an act of faith!