mike the wiz writes:
[...] if we want to test the big bang we can put on our tv, but I still await my own home test for evolution.
I find it very peculiar that you accept so off-handedly that static on your TV is evidence for the Big Bang. There could be dozens of other explanations, yet here is Mike, who sees snow on his TV screen and pronounces without further thought: "Yup, Big Bang allright."
For most people, the theoretical framework that led scientists to posit the idea of the Big Bang is much harder to understand than the basic tenets of the theory of evolution, which are 'imperfect replication' and 'selective pressure', ideas that can be readily understood by the layperson.
What's more, the evidence for evolution is much more visible and accessible to the public than the evidence for the Big Bang. You can literally see imperfect replication happening in nature. And you can logically conclude that the environmental circumstances
must exert selective pressure on different individuals of the same sort.
The only thing you cannot directly witness is the long-term continuing repetition of imperfect replication under selective pressure. That's where fossils come in handy: they are evidence that this continuing repetition has taken place. Looking at the fossils, it doesn't take 'Columbo brilliance' to figure out what happened.
What you ask for, Mike, is an experiment you can do at home that produces new species. Well, that's easy: just breed horses for a couple of millions of years. I'm sure you'll end up with some very different horselike creatures that can't interbreed. If you continue the experiment even longer, you might end up with something distinctly non-horselike.
You don't get to live millions of years? That's too bad, Mike, but that's your problem, not evolution's. You have to accept that some processes in nature take a little bit more time than your short lifespan. Like the universe cooling down sufficiently to produce the 3K background radiation you see on your TV as static.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins