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Evolution part 1: What evolution is and is not.

September 16th, 2008

This is the first part of a series of posts on evolution (what it is, what evidence there is for it and so on)
This first post will be about what evolution is and is not..

What it is not.

• All of science
• Other sciences
  • Cosmology
    • The Big Bang Theory
    • Star formation
    • Planet formation
  • Geology
  • Chemistry
    • Abiogenesis (origin of life)
• Origen of the universe
• Survival of the fittest
• Atheistic (it has nothing to do with the existence or non existence of a god or gods)
• A lie

What it is

• A filed of biology
• A fact and a theory
• Descent with modification
• Change in allele frequencys with in a geen pool

Some questions that will be asked:
“How can the Big Bang theory, abiogenesis (and so on) when you when you these are what have lead to life forming?”
It does not matter where the universe came from, how it happened or how life formed evolution still apples.
“How can evolution be a theory and a fact?”
The words “Fact” and “theory” mean different thing in science than they do in everyday life. A fact in science is an objective and verifiable observation, a theory is a heavily tested explanation for observations (facts).

Evolution Main Page
Part 2