Starnum wrote:I don't think so. I can't really agree with that line of thinking at all, and to me Gravity has clear and evident proof, whereas evolution does not. I throw an apple in the air, it comes back down. Meanwhile, Alligators are still alligators, or some such, heh. Although, I'm an existentialist anyway, so I'm more likely to believe that we can't really discern facts anyway.
It doesn't matter if you agree, because Evolution is a fact on the same merits as Gravity is also fact.
Gravity: An apple falling from a tree.
Evolution: Virginia Tech (VPI) courses that studies fruit flies to the point that they are no longer fruit flies but several other sub-species but are all derived from fruit flies.
How about Cows? Surely god created Cows right? Wrong. They where breed from
Aurochs, the modern cow is different species.
The Aurochs is currently extinct, then you may ask 'how is it extinct, we have cows!' and that is the point, the domestic cow is sub-species by one derived from the other.
Common Ancestry.
note: subspecies is not a dirty word, it doesn't mean lesser. it just denotes that from the species we are talking about is just derived from it. akin to how we breed dogs for example, over time features develop that we like and we try to breed them true. Once the features mature and no reproduction snafus happen, it is a new sub-species!
example of this is the new Serval cat hybrid. It is not longer a 'domestic cat' just as it is no longer a Serval cat, but a mixture of two species or what we call interspecies breeding (aka cross breeding).
This happens in the wild too, Polar Bears mating with Grizzly Bears which is becoming more common in Canada. At some point both Polar Bears and Grizzly Bears will co-exist with a 3rd Bear species that is derived from both of them.