What do we call someone that is not a scientist and believes in and promotes evolution?
You mean someone who accepts evolution? A normal, rational person who likes to base their ideas on facts.
Man of Faith said:
What this post assumes is all scientists believe in and promote evolution. All scientists haven't proven evolution to themselves, they believe it based on others experiements. Meaning they have faith in the enterpretation of the data by other scientists. There is no scientific experiment that proves common descent of all animals. Evoluiton is extrapolated by looking at the data. And since nobody was there at the beginning of the world, then it is by faith that people believe what they have extrapolated to be true.
No, unfortunately I'm sure there are some scientists who don't accept evolution. They're not biologists or doctors or anything related to biology, though, that's for sure.
Yes, the theory of evolution uses facts that we know and can show to explain something that happened long ago when humans weren't around. The same way science uses facts to explain other things so that we can have running water, and sturdy houses and computers and cars and airplanes and modern medicine. Why is it that you trust science for everything else except evolution? The same process is used to get the theory of evolution as is used to get computers. So, either you should accept evolution or you should stop using your computer.
Before someone believes in evolution they must first believe it without evidence.
No, see, that's the difference between evolution and creationism. All you have to do is look at the evidence for evolution, and you can see it's true. There's no belief involved.
They say that the evidence points to evolution but that is not true. The evidence that people tout as evolution is really just data that has to be interpreted one way or another.
Yes, again, much like all of the other data that science interprets with which you have no problem. You have no problem with science when it gives you cool, modern amenities like a refrigerator, but when it seems to contradict your precious belief about god (it doesn't even technically do that, you just see it that way), all of a sudden the problem is with science. Why don't you just go all the way? Just don't use anything that science has produced? Go live in the woods with no running water or preservatives for food, or pain-killers or antibiotics. And you definitely can't have a computer or car or house or even clothes from any store. Good luck with that.
