Evolution however, I've done enough research to know it's true. Not just internet clicky clicky, I've been to all sorts of museums, the cradle of human kind, I've been to caves and seen sites where they're currently still excavating hominid fossils.
What a cumbersome way to prove evolution exists. Just use bacterial resistance. You can prove evolution exists in 5 hours, and you can see it happening in real time with your own two eyes.
Though we of people of logic and reason (i.e scientists) should not be so defensive of our theories. Then we are no better than the fanatical, they believe in words in books written by men of past, and we follow the mathematics of men written of past that has been built on to provide this so called "truth". If you are truely a man of science and intellect then you would realise the truth and that is 'There is no absolute truth'. By fanatically believing the most recent research you are turning objective science into a religion, blind faith into writings.
I can prove evolution and I can formulate a theory of evolution by piecing the information and facts that has been discovered over time. For example:
1) I know evolution, the change of a living organism to survive better in this environment, exists. My evidence antibiotic resistance
2) I know life is diverse and forever changing with always the more superior lifeforms advancing forward as dominant. My evidence is fossils.
3) I know life changed many times according to the conditions of earth, my evidence is the ice shards extracted in the antarctic which keep a detailed atmospheric record, Just like how volcanic rocks keep a record of the earth's magnetic field.
4) I can prove the existance of forced evolution i.e Breeding and of course synthetic evolution i.e our technology
5) I can prove that water, organic chemistry and energy are required for life
6) I can prove that membranes and cells can come into existance and self replicate from amino acids. The experiement was recently done using amino acids and basic fatty acids an extention of miller's experiment, unfortunately I forgot the name of the experiment, I saw a documentry on BBC K.
The only thing I cant prove is that this "primodial soup" really existed. Though I can extrapolate my data collected thus far and safely say that it must have. Similarly like how we can safely say that a super massive singularity powers the rotation of the milkyway galaxy even though we cant see it. Also how we safely say that air exists.
Though as intellectuals or pseudointellectuals that pretend to be more intelligent than others because they have done some reading on the internet. We must remember the cold hard fact. WE CANNOT DISPROVE THE EXISTANCE OF GOD. Thus it would be an insult to science to say as scientists that god doesnt exist without a complete definate picture, if there is still doubt about a topic it may not be considered fact.
Though personally I dont believe myself in the power of god for many reasons which I will layout in the latter end of this post. There is some truth in what religion states. For example hinduism (the oldest religion on earth) states that in life there is rebirth and the soul recycles itself into new life. In terms of science this holds true. Everything you are made of only exists because something died. The elements in your body were formed in super massive stars that went supernova, therefore from that death, earth , the sun, plants, animals and essensially humanity was derived.
It also states that the gods arrived on their golden ships in the sky (not as simply as this though). So one must look at this objectively, is it possible that humanity was aided by aliens (no im not joking or making fun here, dead serious all avenues must be explored), that provided knowledge tools and uplifted animal homosaipians into what they are today? Before you laugh know that if you have a dog and teach him to sit, play dead ect in the wild this will not occur, your dog has recieved knowledge from your intellectual interference. This would also explain a lot of the miracles quoted in ancient religions that are now extinct.
The biggest problem with the concept is that religion may not be sectionalised for convience, it claims to be a way of truth, in terms of hinduism, the problem lies with the reincarnation principle. How can you have a equilibrium of souls? when the population is growing ? where do these new souls come from? Conversely monoesthetic religions like Islam and christianity that believe in eternity heaven and hell. The problem with these lies with the fact that eternity cannot exist, if its born/created it will die/break over time.
The next thing I have a problem with all religion, is that what makes this text of yours "holy" ? what differs it from any other old fable. I highly doubt that the sky parted and a master copy came down gently to ground in a bathe in a brilliant pure light. Then the fact remains is why are there so many different religions? if its one god then there should be one religion, if so what happens to the religion of those cultures that are now extinct? where are their gods gone too? the norse gods aztec gods trojan greek egyptian ect ect ect. Again this violates the fundamental law of monesthetic religion, thus the proper conclusion would be a polyesthetic religion would be correct to commodate this, which violates monoestheic religion a redundant nonsensical cycle.
Now the next thing, the lack of power of god. I dont know about you but I have not called in to work or school or anytime in my lifetime that I could not make it because "its raining fire". Now if you say you spoke to god and try to change the world, we admit you to psychiatry. Which comes to my most killing blow to religion as a whole. It is not god that created man, its man created god. Currently there is an experiment conducted known as the 'God helmet'. Its suppose to find the existance of god within our brains, as a certain portion known as the limbic system in the brain is resposible for thirst, emotions and a lot of other things, mirrored are these gyrii that allow the concept of god. When subjects are exposed to the stimulus of the god helmet, they are reports to have felt the presence of others which they often described as "angels". Medically, this system is in play to protect the human psych from extreme traumatic damage, and is in place to maintain sanity in events of extreme release of neutrotransmitters. Logically this makes sense, if you watch these miracle programs on TV you will see stories of people who claimed they saw god and a bright white light ect. Intellectuals tend to dismiss them as seekers for fame and the religious falsy approve of them as subjective evidence to comfort their religious egos. Look in the story of moses, he claimed to have spoken to god after extreme stress, with almost all prophets. There are many factors to this system so its difficult to say as the data is still in its infancy.
Finally by disproving religion as a whole I can start to disprove creationism and combine that to my proof of evolution to come up with a more factual scenario. However creationism claims a very disturbing fact. "God created everything and everyone". Lets explore what this means, if that holds true then that would mean god can create energy... however thats a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. One might want to argue at this point that god is above the laws of physics. To which I respond, why? why would god be above his own laws if he indeed created everything? I have proof that the law of thermodynamics has never been violated, even at a fundamental quantum level. Though I have never seen any proof of god's existance. As I stated before a text with fancy words does not pass as evidence. When last have you seen a micracle if biblical proportions like raining fire, plague selecting those of a certain belief. Doesnt happen sorry. Thus your religious text is no different from lord of the rings and harry potter. 4000 years from now some living thing might dig up a harry potter book, if it can understand the book, harry potter would be considered a god. He has magic fights evil ect ect ect. Creationism and religion hold ZERO ground in reality. While mathematics and physics hold some definite ground.
In other words:
- An evolutionist can prove the concept of evolution. Can show that change occurs. Can mathematically derive a time frame for a species to create a genetic change. Prove the existance of genetic dorminant vs recessive. Can prove that the idealogy of god is simply the stimulation of some neutrons in the brain. Can prove that cellular components like membranes can be formed with just basic elements and the proposed formula for life. The only thing that science cant prove at this moment is. The location of the primordial soup and prove/disprove god's existance in an obective mannor, i believe subjectively its already over for god.
-The creationist on the other hand, cannot PROVE their god exists. If you bring your bible as proof then im brining my harry potter book, its no different. They cannot PROVE the existance of devine power. Nor can they prove the existance of the soul. Religion has also failed to prove the events they preach. If moses caused god to rain fire on egypt, howcome I cant find any evidence? no maeteors ect NOT even a burn on the remains of the egyptian empire. Where is jesus' body? and why has god STOPPED creating life? where is noah's arc? where is noah? Furthermore creationists cant DENY evolution exists because by saying "evolution doesnt exist" you are essentially saying "Drug Resistant tuberculosis does not exist" ... sounds ridiculous huh. In conclusion creationist fail to prove their ideals and fail to disprove accepted science ideals.