Nope. It cannot be verified. We can’t haul generations of humans into the laboratory. The mechanical process is like building a car by throwing random parts into a pile and hoping self-assembly occurs. Undirected means undirected.
But you can look at the fossil record and perform tests on those records to determine what happened. Reproducibility does not require that you reproduce evolution, it requires that the tests verifying the theory be able to be reproduced with the same results and conclusions which happens.
Are you suggesting you can prove that all creatures on earth came into being via evolution by proving evolution can occur?
I am saying that the Church tells us that all creatures came into being because God decided to create them. Science tells us that He chose evolution as the method for that creation. The Church then tells us the one exception which is the human soul, which did not evolve but was directly created by God.
As I describe it, the Bible is not a history book. It’s meant to teach us moral truths not scientific truths. And intriguingly enough, theistic evolution and the scientific story of creation follow the Biblical narrative shockingly well.
Sounds unreasonable to me. Earthly paradise would have diseases, destruction and death in that case. Also fire ants.
You must have been wearing blinders. There are questions which have to be answered in biology, life sciences, etc. Now, in a public institution, those questions, if answered, will not be answered in accordence with the Church’s teacning. Now, perhaps the questions were intentionally avoided. In that case the students might be wondering what is going on.
In what way does science prove this? Proving that creatures do or can evolve is a far cry from proving creation via evolution. I’m not saying God could not have selected creatures for evolution possibly leading to the evolution of first humans, from whom we descend. That said, you are making QUITE the leap in claiming that proving evolution CAN occur proves that all living life on earth came about via evolutionary processes.
I was making the assumption for the sake of discussion. I don’t think it is as wide spread of a problem as some of the post in this thread would suggest.
Let me say that I’m supportive of your stance. This doesn’t just mean that I agree with you, but that I am actively involved in trying to do this with my nephew and one other child. Other members of the family have taken responsibility for his education in other subjects. Two of work with science with him and I’m also working with him for math.
I am not sure I am getting your point. Could you elaborate a little please?
Most of those hits are not from people interested in the program. Look at the posts, most are from people attempting to defend science.
It is not a leap at all. We can look at the historical evidence and the fossil record and see evolution taking place and occurring over the course of earth’s history.
You have brought this up many times. No one is saying anything in the hopes of getting something banned. We are making points that are necessary for the discussion at hand. I believe the lack of moderator action to this point indicates that they understand that and no one has crossed the line. The number of times you repeat this seems to be an attempt to stop people from discussing things that you do not want to discuss.
I think science can certainly analyse the worlds religions and humans propensity to create Gods through the ages. Religion is certainly worth studying from a scientific perspective, so I don’t see them as separate fields. Science can study any topic.
Science can study the sociology involved in religion. Science can not study God.