How has Charles Darwin Changed Our Lives?

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"Darwin raises many followers" is how they translate it online.

Yes Hoorah!

Personally I would have made a new thread because this one is so old...
SHHH! Don't tell the mods I said that...

I find it scary how uneducated alot of you americans are.
Gravity and evolution are just theories?
That's just crazy talk...

I blame christian fundamentalism, americans are way way more religious than europeans in general.

@ Pepe, your are right that this evolution thread is old . . . Its the oldest thread of the universe.
Its at least 13,7 billion years old, and it will much longer be there as this website and mankind will be alive.
Some religious people say/think that the planet is 6 thousend years old. Okay they have the right to say, but its wrong.

@ naturalplastic. You dit find a good translation. The dutch word for trailer is "aanhanger" and aanhanger is on our language also a word for follower

The savant Charles Darwin changed many things in our lives.
In the more open-minded and liberal country's there are even streetnames called to the genius Charles Darwin.
Ive collected pictures of streetsigns with Darwin in it. And did make a youtube movie about the Master.

Yes, they are “just theories”. Every theory is “just a theory”, because there’s nothing else it could become. There are refuted theories, theories with a little empirical support and theories with an awful lot of empirical support. The craziness lies in ignoring the difference between these.

I'm a little confused here...
Are you saying the idea of the world being created in 6 days and the theory of evolution has the same degree of credibility?

I wonder where in my post you got that idea from

I don’t like believing, so I usually avoid terms like credibility when I can. The purpose of theories is to predict the results of experiments.

The idea of “the world being created in six days” is, by itself, very vague, so it can be fleshed out in countless different ways. Some of these won’t even be theories in the scientific sense, because they won’t make empirically testable predictions. Others will be equivalent to existing mainstream theories; i.e., they’ll predict the same result for every experiment. The only reason they’re not normally used is that they’ll be more complex—they’re discarded, on practical grounds, by Ockham’s razor. For example, you can toy with the concepts of creation and day, and postulate that known laws of physics were different at that time, in whatever way turns out to be necessary to predict the empirical results we already know, thus gaining no predictive power, but saving your pet theory from refutation. Another theory constructed in this way is Last-Thursdayism.

Naïve interpretations of the idea that the world was created in six days, however, are most likely to result in already refuted theories, by making predictions incompatible with available empirical data.

The theory of evolution, on the other hand, belongs firmly to the category of theories with a decent amount of empirical support, which means a decent amount and variety of experiments have been performed which could, in principle, have refuted it, but didn’t.

What part of my saying: I am confused by what you are saying and could you clarify, didn't you understand?

I understood none of it—I don’t usually understand things I can’t see anywhere in the text I’m reading.

Whats to figure out?

If you take Genesis literally (and not in some figurative "fleshed out" way) then its very specific and straightforward.

The cosmos and earth were all created in six 24 hour periods in 4000 BC. Or then abouts.

So he is asking you if that hypothesis has the same credibility as the combination of evolution through natural selection, and geologic gradualism,that happened over billions of years, that scientists use to explain the origin of life and the earth et al?

Agreed...
As a species, humanity is an abomination...

Actually the bonobo have more reasons to feel sad they are related to humans than a gorrilla.
Because a bonobo is much more peaceful than other primates. The bonobo dont commit genocide.

The song in de video contains a dutch folk song about sailors with beards. I filled the video with pictures of the genius Charles Darwin, his beard and The Beagle.

Ho-ho-ho







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