> That's good Wesley! Now, tell me something you know for sure about the
> process of evolution that differentiates it from special creation.
This question makes no sense.
Evolution is a scientific theory, that, like all scientific theories,
explains observed phenomena in terms of natural mechanisms. No
scientific theory, including the theory of evolution, has anything to
say about "special creation" or any other supernatural phenomenon.
If it suits you to say that God warps the space-time near a large mass,
that's fine. If it suits you to say that God moves the Earth in its
orbit, that's fine. But you won't see anything about God in scientific
publications that discuss the theory of gravity or planetary orbits.
Why single out the phenomena explained by the theory of evolution as
having a supernatural cause? Why didn't you ask, "Tell me something you
know for sure about the process of gravity that differentiates it from
special movement"?
Anything can be explained as the effect of a supernatural entity, and
for many centuries that was the prevailing explanation. However, that
explanation is vacuous because it can be used to explain everything,
which means it explains nothing.
The efficacy of the scientific method is due largely to the fact that it
explains natural phenomena in terms of natural mechanisms only. There
is absolutely no reason to treat the theory of evolution differently
from any other scientific theory.
Matt
--Science is, foremost, a method of interrogating reality: proposinghypotheses that seem true and then testing them -- trying, almostperversely, to negate them, elevating only the handful that survive tothe status of a theory. Creationism is a doctrine, whose adherents areinterested only in seeking out data that support it.George Johnson, NY Times, 15 Aug 1999