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Author Topic:   The phrase "Evolution is a fact"
cavediver
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Message 181 of 217 (524280)
09-15-2009 3:55 PM
Reply to: Message 172 by Arphy
09-15-2009 3:02 AM


Re: Allelegorical License
The term evolution is used as in Cosmic evolution (nothing to do with a change in allele frequency), Stellar and Planetary Evolution (also nothing to do with a change in allele frequency), Abiogenesis is also seen as a type of evolution, and the term evolution is often associated with it, and Chemical Evolution.
Or so Chick, Hovind, or some other cretin taught you to blindly accept... absolute bullshit. I'm a cosmologist/mathematician/physicist. I do not know one fellow scientist who would for one second think you meant anything other than the Theory of Evolution (as in biological evolution on planet Earth) if you were to use the term evolution without any other qualifier. As a cosmologist, I have no clue as to what you mean by "cosmic evolution". Are you talking about big bang cosmology, or say galactic evolution? "Stellar evolution" concerns the life-cycle of a single star. We talk about how a star evolves its way across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. That's like describing my life from birth to death as human evolution. And what the hell is "planetary evolution"? We have the field of planetary formation - is this what you mean? Chemical evolution? Is that how hydrogen evolves its way across the periodic table to Ununoctium?
Is there no end to creationist bullshit?

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