This is necessary to untether you from physical reality (evidence). It frees you to believe whatever you prefer. The strict empiricist won't do that. He understands that opens a door he doesn't want to walk through. He doesn't want to believe anything that isn't demonstrably correct, and belief by faith is the most direct route to that outcome. One is free to believe whatever he likes if he allows himself to reject ideas just because they contradict cherished beliefs. Hopefully, you see that you can believe anything at all by that method, and why I call that untethered to physical reality.
You reject science selectively.
Over country. You probably see that as a virtue, but I see it as a conflict of interest. Christianity and Americanism are not compatible. The church is forever trying to turn the government into a theocracy. Christians voted in large numbers for Trump in the hope that he would find judges to trash church-state separation and recriminalize abortion if possible. There is nothing democratic about the church or the model of God in heaven. The Ten Commandments are in conflict with the US Constitution, which recognizes no gods or state religion, and offers freedom from religion as an acceptable choice. It's a tension that never goes away and continually threatens Americanism.
That's a good reason. That's a large part of why I'm here as well, although in reverse. I'm looking at how faith modifies thought. Have you learned anything? You would do well to leave this discussion understanding that we don't expect to see chimps produce anything but more chimps for millennia, and stop offering that as a counterargument to evolution, which predicts that you will never see any creature change into any other "kind," and so is not a counterargument to the theory. You would also do well to abandon the word proof in this context. It's not the standard for belief in either the scientific community, which uses evidence to decide what is true about the world but not proof, nor for the religious community, which uses neither, but instead relies on faith.
The body of evidence for the theory supports that contention beyond reasonable doubt. We are still evolving, as are the chimps.
Of course they are, just as the theory predicts and requires.
Yes, you reject anything that is in conflict with your faith-based beliefs, and probably don't pay attention to the rest of science. I'm guessing that you have no position on emission and absorption spectra or the Krebs cycle.
Paleontology is just one of several fields of science supplying the evidence for evolution:
[1] Evolution reproduced in the lab or documented in nature: fruit flies that lost the ability to interbreed and became two new species, multiple species of the house mouse unique to the Faeroe Islands occurring within 250 years of introduction of a founder species, five new species of cichlid fishes forming in a single lake within 4,000 years of introduction of a parent species, etc. Evidence of speciation:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html
[2] Fossil evidence - The way fossils appear in the layers of rock always corresponds to relative development, constant discovery of new transitional forms. E.g. reptile-birds, reptile-mammals, legged whales, etc
[3] Genetic evidence - chromosome homologies, common genes, nested ERVs,
[4] Molecular evidence - a common genetic code, molecular clock evidence in the DNA which timeline corresponds with fossils and radiometric dating data.
[5] Evidence from proteins - common biological pathways (Krebs cycle), common A, B, O blood typing and the Rh factor and the insulin molecule, and the proteins responsible for color vision (same as those found in Old World primates but absent in New World primates and from all other mammals.
[6] Vestigial and atavistic organs - E.g. Leg and pelvic bones in whales, dolphins, and some snakes; unused eyes in blind cave fish.
[7] Embryology - E.g. Legs on dolphin embryos; tails and gill folds on human embryos; snake embryos with legs; marsupial eggshell and carnuncle.
[8] Biogeography - The current and past distribution of species on the planet. E.g. almost all marsupials and almost no placental mammals are native to Australia ... the result of speciation in a geographically isolated area. Also, ring species.
[9] Homology - E.g. the same bones in the same relative positions in primate hands, bat wings, bird wings, mammals, whale and penguin flippers, pterosaur wings, horse legs, the forelimbs of moles, and webbed amphibian legs.
[10] Bacteriology, virology, immunology, pest-control - the way that bacteria evolve in response to antibiotics and viruses evolve to require new vaccines
Here's a chance for improvement: ditch the word proof. And yes, we have ample evidence that tetrapods emerged from finned fish about 400 million years ago.
You know better than to write something like this again, right? It's really a giant stamp on the forehead saying that one is scientifically unsophisticated - not a help when trying to argue the topic.
very interesting.