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<blockquote data-quote="newusername" data-source="post: 5990138" data-attributes="member: 562064">How could Darwin have done most of his work based on an experiment you&#039;re claiming was done almost 100 years after he published &quot;On the Origin of Species&quot;?The idea that nothing exists outside of our mind is an age old philosophical question.&nbsp; I recommend doing some reading if you&#039;re interested.As for your last question, you are absolutely correct in identifying that evolution does not preclude a creator (this is a common mistake made by the religious; imagine if a god created matter and the laws that govern it, then let his creation work itself out to what we have now), though that doesn&#039;t make the argument for the creator any stronger.It is widely accepted in the scientific community; only those who do not understand it or have not taken the time to research evolution fully think that it is not a fact.There are a variety of arguments of different ways in which we got to exactly where we are now, but the idea of some sort of common ancestry (again, no one is saying that a monkey gave birth to **** sapiens sapiens) is very widely accepted.The fundamentally religious have always ignored factual information, but the more clever of the religious have recognized that you can re-shape the god argument to be congruent with what science has shown us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newusername, post: 5990138, member: 562064"] How could Darwin have done most of his work based on an experiment you're claiming was done almost 100 years after he published "On the Origin of Species"? The idea that nothing exists outside of our mind is an age old philosophical question. I recommend doing some reading if you're interested. As for your last question, you are absolutely correct in identifying that evolution does not preclude a creator (this is a common mistake made by the religious; imagine if a god created matter and the laws that govern it, then let his creation work itself out to what we have now), though that doesn't make the argument for the creator any stronger. It is widely accepted in the scientific community; only those who do not understand it or have not taken the time to research evolution fully think that it is not a fact. There are a variety of arguments of different ways in which we got to exactly where we are now, but the idea of some sort of common ancestry (again, no one is saying that a monkey gave birth to **** sapiens sapiens) is very widely accepted. The fundamentally religious have always ignored factual information, but the more clever of the religious have recognized that you can re-shape the god argument to be congruent with what science has shown us. [/QUOTE]

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