Russ Tanner wrote:


One of the many? Would you mind listing more for us? Because the rest of your post seems to have gotten distracted with topics like colloidal silver, global warming and mercury amalgams. Even if all the conspiracy theories you've mentioned above are true, that does not validate evolution as one among them. For that matter, even if certain powers are using evolution for harmful acts and exploitation, that does not invalidate evolution -- because if it does, then all the evil things done in the Christian name throughout the centuries would mean, according to your own logic, that Christianity is also invalidated. I know, I know -- you'll tell me that those people aren't real Christians. Well what's stopping me from using the same argument and saying those people aren't real evolutionists?

These argument strategies you use work both ways. Case in point: citing that people believe what they want to believe. Very few people will choose to accept evolution out of desire. After all, what's so desirable about it? Religion, on the other hand, offers salvation, hope and fantasy. Evolution offers none of these things any more than biology or geometry does. So if anyone is believing what they believe out of desire, I'm sorry but it's we religious folk. That being said, evolution and religion are not incompatible. You have two posters as an example here, at least: myself and LinearAq, who has been quoted with saying (s)he's a Christian even.

Let's stick to the subject of falsifying and/or proving evolution and leave the parallels out of it, if you please. You have a pretty interesting point regarding molecules -- I'm interested to see how the other posters respond to that one -- but if there are so many other examples, as you've said, why waste time posting about other conspiracy theories when you can get straight to the point and show us these other examples?