Leif Erikson

Diskworld H3H3H3 But really, Cowboy Bebop.

Danielsangeo: I was fully aware of the irony involved in putting the words "believe" and "evolution" together in the same sentence. In retrospect, I derped on that one. It's actually kind of arrogant to think that anyone's beliefs will accurately represent the reality. Its just too big.

OK. STOP. I will Qualify what is being said. 0) Appealing to Majority is a Logical Fallacy. Don't use it if you want to be taken seriously. 1) The Public misuses science words regularly. The word "Theory" is one of them. No scientist would call something a theory until (s)he has picked it to the bone trying to find some weakness in the argument. What the OP means when he says "theory" is in fact called a hypothesis. 2) There is no such thing as a scientific fact: Science is applied empiricism. Empiricism (Oversimplification hazard!) basically states "Nothing makes sense until we perform experiments" In science, Logic and Observation are only used to form a hypothesis. 3) Evolution does not work that way. Philosophers, think about this: You have 200 men and 200 women stranded on an uninhabited island. Of the men and women, 10 of each have a genetic disease that reduces their chance of reproducing by 50%. The gene is recessive. (sickle cell anaemia is the disease I'm thinking of). However, a parasite also lives on the island, and cannot attack the anaemic people. (Malaria). The non anaemic people have a 75% chance of dying before reproducing because the mosquitoes are really that bad in some parts of the world. As time passes, The anaemic mutants out-reproduce the healthy humans, since they don't die as frequently. Eventually, the anaemic people will take a majority, having evolved into a new subspecies. If the mutants continue to drift away from the norm, (can take as few as 10000 to as many as several million years), they will loose the ability to interbreed with the normal humans. A Note, in the most malaria ridden parts of Africa and Asia, this is actually happening, with Anaemic vs Normal phenotype ratios as high as 1:10. Usually, this is lower than 1:1000. I must stress that people with anaemia are STILL HUMANS, so don't you dare misquote me! Furthermore, I'm not arguing for Evolution; I'm stating what exactly evolution is, and why anybody at all believes it.