With recent discoveries from the Ediacaran it now seems as though that "rapid" change in fact spanned tens of millions of years, although the rate was fastest in the Cambrian..
Pure projection. It is religion that regards good and evil as facts, they mandate that objective morality exists which destroys subjectivity.
Without the input of religion people tend to state that good and evil are subjective and often matters of pure opinion.
Then your understanding is false, even with the most modern telescopes the number of objects found so far is encouraging not disappointing. Objects that far out are incredibly difficult to detect and no probe has yet got far enough out to return any images.
Its going to about 5 years before...
As always you provide nothing to substantiate this claim. Pointing to a Wiki article about Free Will is meaningless in establishing any link between Evolution and a denial of Free Will because as the article plainly states it is a philosophical question and it also makes it clear that it is an...
Agreed.
The truth of the matter is that arguments about free will are ultimately irrelevant to the history of the diversity of life. Whether the hard determinists are right or not has absolutely no bearing on the validity of the Theory of Evolution. Whether "choosing" happens at the DNA level...
Do you really think that species such as the Yucca have been around since the time of the very first plants? Ferns are a fairly early group of land plant, they evolved at least 360 million years ago and most species still do not need animals to reproduce.
The evidence is that the first land...
I wouldn't be. After all in the US the average for the whole population is 48%.
And of course its 22% affirmative which does not mean everyone else is a negative, these polls usually have a reasonable percentage of "don't knows".
Apparently in the US in 2007 22% of Mormons accepted evolution as the best explanation for the origin of humans, which seems to be the most rigourous was of determining support for the theory. It may be higher for a general acceptance for the diversity of life
Wrong. Huge sections of religious communities accept evolution as the explanation for the diversity of life.
In the US for example its only the Evangelical Protestants, Mormons and JWs where the acceptance of Evolution drops to low figures (>25%).
Speciation in complex life is an observed fact, deal with it.
Observed Instances of Speciation
No we don't, because that is not what happened.
No there is no difference, an appearance of design does not mean that there is design, and considering how many examples of crap design there are...
We do not need to know the initial cause of an event to establish how an event happened after it starts. If a window is broken then its broken, you don't need to know what caused the breakage to establish that it is broken and how the class shattered and fell.
We have evidence of the Big Bang...
Wrong, we do know in what form the current Universe started out and then developed and that is via the process that has been termed "The Big Bang". The evidence overwhelmingly shows that the Universe started off very small and without any matter and that it underwent inflation and cooling as the...
No, its not a guess. Its a possible explanation that explains the facts as we know them.
No one in the field claims that their particular answer is definitely correct which is why no faith is involved. Science has the honesty to admit that some explanations are tentative and need more...
As I said, there are varied hypotheses about possible causes, Branes are one as suggested by Steinhardt and Turok. But evidence is lacking at the moment so work is ongoing. The truth is that we may never know.
The Universe, which includes space and time originated at the Big Bang. This is...
You stated that you were taught that it contained nothing, if you were imprecise in your statement that is down either to you or your teachers who taught you that there was "nothing".
And lets face it, Dark Matter dates back to the 1930's, Quantum foam to the 1950s and the existence of zpe to...
And I answered, with a reason why the answer is currently "Not much". If an event has a cause then that would be "prior" to or "at the same time as" the event. As I explained both concepts have little meaning as the relate to a point where both space and time started to exist in their current...