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Online Reference: FAQs and tutorials on the Theory of Evolution

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Farmall F12 like this one for me.
(Albeit un-restored)
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Tractors have evolved a long way since prehistoric times.
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
Really?

I would say instead that it is pointing out an unfortunate lack of epistemological seriousness in casual discourse.

Our communities go out of their ways in order to lend prestige to straws of belief and waste obscene amounts of attention and emotional energy in order to protect them.
Interesting, but I do not believe this addresses the problem of using the anecdotal description of evolution as a "fact." The use is a bit misleading.
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
Is it? Why?
The proper definition of a 'fact' is objective verifiable evidence that does not change. The sciences Evolution change and evolve with newknowledge. The misuse of the term gives those that reject evolution a crack to justify their objections.

The sciences of evolution is NOT a "fact." You may say the sciences of evolution are "fact" based.
 
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Pogo

Well-Known Member
The proper definition of a 'fact' is objective verifiable evidence that does not change. The sciences Evolution change and evolve with newknowledge. The misuse of the term gives those that reject evolution a crack to justify their objections.

The sciences of evolution is NOT a "fact." You may say the sciences of evolution are "fact" based.
Evolution in the sense of changes of allele freqency and other measures is a fact, the science or theory is not, This is only relevant when arguing with deniers.
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
Evolution in the sense of changes of allele freqency and other measures is a fact, the science or theory is not, This is only relevant when arguing with deniers.
OK, you described an observed fact supporting evolution in bold. Other measures may be considered facts.

I believe the use of fact should not refer to evolution as a whole. Actually I prefer to refer to the 'Sciences of Evolution' and not the old phrase 'Theory of evolution, because evolution over time has become involved with a number of theories and hypotheses from different fields of science.
 
I prefer to refer to the 'Sciences of Evolution' and not the old term Theory of Evolution.

I like the term “evolution”, plain and simple.

Things change in dynamical systems.

That’s what evolution means.

And evolution is simply a fact (or an operator or whatever) for anything that changes over time.

Things change.

Unless they don’t, in which case either it doesn’t evolve, or it’s evolution is completely boring. (Take your pick,)

Religion changes over time, so religion evolves.

Culture changes over time, so culture evolves.

Mathematics changes over time, so mathematics evolves,

Hell, even biological systems change over time, so we evolve.

I’m more evolved today than I was yesterday, because I’ve changed.

Evolution itself is not a difficult concept.

It’s only when we get into the details of special casss that it gets complicated.
 
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