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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (17588)6/1/2004 12:14:10 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
a subtle change in the meaning of the word evolution.

Any change in the meaning of the word evolution is not coming from the scientific community. Evolve means just that - to change.

There are theories to explain how and why organisms change over time. Darwin's theory is called "Natural Selection" - from the title of his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
. It is only the critics who called it a "theory of evolution" because the religious thought at the time was that plants and animals had not changed over time, and fossils could be explained by Noah's flood. Only a tiny proportion of flat-earth advocates still deny that there has been change in the living matter on earth over time. Evolution is now a fact as firm as any other.

Darwin's theory did not attempt to explain the origins of life, only how it may have evolved. The "origins of species" did not refer to an ultimate beginning, but the origin of new species from previous ones. There are, of course, several newer theories which do attempt to explain the first appearance of life as well as important corallaries such as why life does not seem to repeat it's origin over and over. These could be called theories of genesis, but not theories of evolution.

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