Posted: Feb 25, 2014 11:05 am
questioner121 wrote:Frank Merton wrote:I take it questioner121's point is that we can't travel in time to see evolution and therefore we can't know it happened. Do I have that right? Is that really the position?
We can't travel back in time to see what caused the trilobites to die off or the evolution of primates to humans or confirm the age of the earth.
What we have today is evidence which can be interpreted in different ways and unproven for the explanations we derive for them. For example, the evidence for common ancestry is not based on observations of populations interbreeding with one another it's based from traits. However the non believers have been deluded into thinking otherwise.
Well I'm sure you've been told this before, but let me have a stab at it. We can determine all those things from fossils. Fossils are enough proof to persuade anyone intelligent enough and open enough to study the issues involved. Requiring an excessive level of proof is just a cop-out and is intellectually dishonest.