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Originally posted by Leonis:
As I understand it - Darwin's Theory of Evolution is just that - still a theory, a hypothesis. If it was proven beyond doubt (there are still major holes in it) it would be called Darwin's Rule of Evolution.
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Well, it's a theory that is mostly understood to be fact. There is also Newton's
Theory of Gravitational Attraction, but of course no one disputes that.
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What I see as a stumbling block is, if we evolved from apes, why are there still apes? Evolution is meant to be a process of 'survival of the fittest' - if we are the evolved 'fitter' apes, how come the inferior ones survived the conditions that forced the evolutionary change?
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We didn't evolve from apes - Darwin's whole idea was that there was a "missing link", from which man and apes both evolved. Apes are not our ancestors, they are our cousins. And that's why they're still around.
Creationism has enough holes to put Swiss cheese to shame, so for now, I think I'll stick with evolution.