IAMA: Ron Paul | reddit's top ten questions (Part 1 of 5)

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[william9545]

Dipshit evolution doesn't explain life's beginning, that's abiogenisis. Evolution is the change of current life.

[James Hughes]

This question comes from: POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS...

[ziqondeath]

If a theory doesn't have enough proof to back it up it is not a theory, it is a hypothesis. Evolution is a scientific theory, which means that it's basic premise is accepted due to overwhelming evidence but the exact way it works may have some small dispute. much like the difference between Einstein's Theory of Gravity and Newton's one.

[razioth]

hello circlejerk

[Bloodtoker]

As are you. "Bru Ce Ban Ner"

[Bruce Banner]

You're an idiot. "Blood Toker"

[TransfoCrent]

CARL SAGEN BLESS YOU

[Bloodtoker]

Ron Paul is such a tool ._.

[ActuatedGear]

You need to look up the difference between a hypothesis and a theory.

You think the theory of evolution is a hypothesis of evolution. That it is an untested, unsubstantiated guess. This is not so.

Also look up the difference between Law and theory. Theory explains facts. Whereas a Law would explain mathematical relationships, Theory defines causation links. Both are derived from facts. Both are highly tested and at time of writing, unfalsified. At any moment they can change via new evidence.

[M4rkh0lm]

LIKE THIS IF YOURE A STRONG ATHEIST REDDITOR WHO DON'T NEED NO GOD.

[595o]

But natural selection is one of the things that makes evolution possible (next to mutations and possibly recombinations) , evolution, the adaptation throughout the generation borders, is the effect of natural selection if you will.

And if you want to call it "natural selection" if humans steer these changes willingly, that's fine with me, after all humans are part of nature, but there are enough cases where such adaptation happens without human conscious intervention.

[Melissa Mullen]

The issue is that just about all of the changes we've observed only occurred with the trigger of an outside force (an intelligent being, aka humans). And you seem to be talking more about natural selection than evolution. Honestly, evolution has become so muddled up that there is really no definition for it anymore; but I think most people nowadays would agree that the world is too complex to have been created by the growth of unicellular creatures crawling out of a primordial soup.