Re-Theory of Evolution

Hi ICANT,I'm going to take a brief moment to explain the painfully obvious to you. If you don't get it then I don't think you're ever going to get it. No it isn't. You can even go to the [forum=-2] forum and find discussions of stellar evolution. Just type "stellar evolution" (including the quotes) into the search box for that forum.Evolution, like most words in the English language, has more than one definition. Subbie explained precisely which one he meant when he asked how creationists define evolution. If you want to ask how people define other meanings of evolution then propose a thread. Did you take physics in high school, or did they at least teach physics at your high school? If so, did they call it physics or evolution?In college I took an astronomy course, which included cosmology and the Big Bang. They called the course astronomy, not evolution, and they called the cosmology section cosmology, not evolution.If you joined a discussion board about the sport of running, would you insist that running had to include running for political office, running a company, and machinery that is in operation? Of course not. So why are you insisting that threads about biological evolution have to include other definitions of evolution?I'll promote this thread if you really want because I'm sure some useful clarifications and explanations will be contributed, but this is all really very simple and shouldn't need to be explained.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Your problems are caused by going persistently off-topic and failing to follow moderator requests. This topic is for discussing what you were trying to discuss in the What is evolution? thread, where it was off-topic. So unless you're planning to go off-topic in your own thread there should be no problems.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Thread moved here from the Proposed New Topics forum.

As has already been mentioned in this thread, it can almost always be argued that things could have better names than the ones they actually have. Whether words and phrases like evolution, biological evolution, and theory of evolution are the best terms, they're the ones in use, they have clear and unambiguous definitions, and so they're the ones we're going to use.Also, it is the common practice in almost all discussion, both oral and written, to shorten terms once the context is clear. For example, once it has been established you're talking about the United States of America, you only say America from then on. In the same way, once it is clear you're talking about biological evolution, you'll only say evolution from then on. The need for shorter terms to speed communication is the whole reason why words like "this" and "that" exist. Demanding that people not shorten when it is done everywhere by everyone all the time is ridiculous, and board administration will not support this.Lastly, realize that while confusion based upon the use of abbreviated terminology and synonyms is something that should be very easily resolved, that it hasn't so far hints at something more fundamental than mere issues of terminology.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Please stay on topic, which doesn't happen to be materialism. You can propose new topics over at [forum=-25]. Thanks!

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Hopefully Bertvan has seen Message 52 and won't reply.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director