I'm sorry to backtrack a bit, but I wish to respond to your previous comment re: the confirmation of evolution as "law". One of the many difficulties with the core concept of evolution is time. Gradualism (the evolutionary concept that present slow processes stretched over millions and billions of years account for dynamic changes in life), for example, presents in itself an intellectual challenge. Consider:
1. The moon has no erosion, but accumulates cosmic dust at a regular, measurable rate. NASA expected 54 feet of dust to cover the moon (4.5-5 billion years of accumulation) upon our landing there, yet only an eighth of an inch to three inches of such dust in fact covers the moon (less than 8,000 years of accumulation).
2. Our sun burns fuel at such a rate as to cause the sun's diameter to shrink approximately one tenth percent per century (five feet of shrinkage an hour). Our earth relies on the heat of the sun, yet only 100,000 years ago, our sun would have been double its current size, making life on earth inhospitable to life as we know it.
3. Our earth's magnetic field (the principal of progressive deterioration studied by physicist Thomas Barnes) weakens over time. Only 10,000 years ago, the field would have been equal to the strength of a magnetic star; inhospitable to life.
Such examples go on and on. Evolution will remain a theory forever because it's concepts are conflicted out of possibility and can therefore never be proven. Food for thought. |
