William Morder composed on 2018-06-19 15:52 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Gene Heskett composed on 2018-06-10 23:25 (UTC-0400): >>> Evolution has changed almost everything on this planet in the last 70 >>> million years, including us. >> "Evolution" as taught in public schools and universities is 6/7 religion, >> 1/7 science. http://www.ep.tc/problems/59/ is a relatively short 1974 comic >> that explains without fractions. >> Evolution as taught has 7 meanings, only one of which is proven science. >> The rest is entirely based on faith in various theories that have not been >> and almost certainly will not ever be proven. More at http://www.icr.org/ >> and elsewhere. > I believe it's fine for us to express our opinions on subjects about which we > disagree in our individual ways. However, if we start to debate evolution > versus religion, It's not a versus. Evolution IS a religion: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t ... 2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects:... "Evolution", as taught, is not subject to proof. As taught it's all based on theories, aka beliefs. Micro-evolution is without question real and provable, but micro-evolution is not taught as distinguishable from the other 6 types of unprovable evolution, such as that which says dinosaurs and man did not coexist. Technically, it's arguably true that dinosaurs didn't, because "dinosaur" is a word originally created during the 19th century. Before then, the creatures since referred to as dinosaurs were called dragons, and there has been found much art on the walls of caves and elsewhere created many tens of centuries ago that indicate man was interacting with living dragons. > then I think (or maybe, I believe) that we need to start > another thread, if not indeed a separate forum, list, or whatever. One of my reasons to reply was to highlight the unending inane off-topic threads about coffee, chocolate & dinosaurs polluting this list and its archive. If dinosaurs are OK, then anything should go. I'd like to see OT stuff keep to a minimum or less. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/