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» Brian Tubbs - Scientific Method

I agree with EVERYTHING you just wrote. You are absolutely right. I have no problem with speculation and imagination. However, the scientific community needs to ADMIT when it's speculating and imagining. It has not done this with naturalistic evolution.

For example, let's take the fossil record. We have tens of millions of fossils unearthed and categorized, and yet there are huge gaps in the fossil record - "gaps" in terms of the evolutionary theory anyway. There are no true transitional species confirmed in the fossil record. There's also strong evidence of the rapid, sudden appearance of new animals in the fossil record - this doesn't jive with a slow, gradual evolutionary process. Yet the scientific community hides or ignores these facts and continues to declare (in museums, classrooms, etc) that the fossil record supports evolution.

Take cells...Scientists looking at the vast irreducible complexity of cells deny vociferously any evidence of external design - and instead try to come up with theories that would explain the naturalistic, spontaneous generation of these cells. I have NO problem with their engaging in these experiments. They have a right to pursue their theories, but let's be honest - and admit that it IS a theory. The whole idea of naturalistic, unaided evolution is a theory - not confirmed by evidence or fact.