Posted by Barbara on April 26, 1998 at 09:07:05:
In Reply to: Just show me posted by Walker on April 25, 1998 at 23:09:24:
:It seems as if you are willing to believe in the
supernatural on faith alone, yet you require
"repeatable and verifiable experiments" to prove
that we are related to chimps. Doesn't the fact
that we share 97% of the same DNA as they tell you
something?
Or maybe I missed something somewhere.
: : I find it interesting that you don't require or
: : look for evidence or proof of things you
: : consider "supernatural", but you need a "repeatable,
: : verifiable experiment" in order to accept that
: : humans are related to chimps. Hmmmmm. . . . .
: I don't know what you're getting at. If someone want to convince me of something, I want evidence and proof.
: In my way of thinking (which could certainly be flawed) evolution has the evidence but not the proof.
: Scientific proof requires a repeatable, verifiable, universal, predictable experiment. Newton's laws have
: this, evolution doesn't. Supernatural things like ESP don't even have evidence to back them.
: We probably do share a common ancestor with chimps. Can you provide an experiment to demonstrate it? I know I'm
: asking for a lot. But I would really like to end the creationist/evolution debate. Such an experiment
: would go a long way toward accomplishing my goal.
: --Alan