[b said:
Quote[/b] ]I have to say that science does not always deal "strictly and only with the observable." Not all scientific theories can be "proven" by observation. I put proven in quotes because no theory can be proven/disproven.
Not so. All scientific theories *must* be testable and falsifiable by experiment. Einstein's theory of relativity *is* testable (albeit difficult), and thus fits. The reason Superstring has been getting hammered lately is that it's *not* testable or observable.
All science must deal with something we can experiment on, otherwise, well, it's not science.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ] My point is that there is no true "absolute" proof or the lack thereof for evolution.
You're conflating evolution the theory and evolution the observed phenomenon. The former, like all theories, can only become closer and closer to certain, never absolutely so. The latter, the observed phenomenon of evolution, can be proven, in the sense that it can be directly observed.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Many of us have never seen the Dodo bird (I hope not). There are no photographs but only manuscripts and artwork that detail its existance from where it lived, what it ate, who killed it... Most of us agree that such a bird existed but not all.
I have. British Museum of Natural History, in the hall of birds, IIRC. You never said a *live* dodo.
And there is actually plenty of evidence that dodos existed, from photos, mounted specimens, bones, etc. There's even been some talk of trying to clone them.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]I believe it's more important that christians believe God created the universe and than how he created the universe.
+10 for truly getting the point. Objecting to evolution on religious grounds is like objection to depictions of angels on aerodynamic grounds: it totally misses the point. Religion isn't about the dry facts of what happened 400 million years ago, it's about human life, meaning, and finding your place in the world.
Mokele