"JohnN" <jnorris53@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1118264175.653474.320220@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:

Everything evolves... nothing is the same today as it was yesterday.  Let's
not confuse the dictionary definition of the word with Charles Darwin's
attrocious concepts that we were all once amoeba and then monkies,
before suddenly popping into homosapiens.

So you are not using evolution in its biological sense.  Why then do
you say "Evolution (of man) is a theory... a pretty flaky one, at
that."?

Before I continue...  I don't use a spellchecker, and I often have to type
quickly, so if my spelling (or unfamiliarity with Wikli-ickly-pedia) is going
to offend you and take priority points in the discussion, I'll stop posting.

Show me the gaps.

What do I need to show you?  I have no choice but to counter with a
request that you prove to me, that single-cell life evolved into complex
life, which evolved into monkeys, which evolved into homo-erectus.

So there is evidence for steering in evolution, as 'proven' by your
gaps, but you can't find a steerer.  If there's no steerer, then no one
is steering and there is no evidence (gaps) for steering.

It's simple.  Human life did not originate on Earth.

Use a dictionary.  And please, don't claim now that you have a sudden "absence
of belief" in the virtually the same breath you just used to describe your belief in
evolution.  To believe in something is in fact a "faith" in that issue.  Again, see
the Webster's, and do so without being pre-disposed to typical religious terms.

Do you mean definition number three?

I choose this one...

(1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof

Is there a prize?

You can't prove evolution, I don't care to consider creationism, and I cannot
(at this time) prove that the race of man originated elsewhere in the universe.

Why do either of us have to be "wrong" or defensive of the position or be
forced to prove anything to the other?

So far, this is a room full of defensive, combattant types.