An Experiment to Demonstrate Evolution

[GodMark2]

Lets face it, nothing short of Jesus quoting extensively from "on origin of species" during the 2nd coming would convince fundeis of "macro" evolution.
And even them some of them would claim that Jesus had been misquoted by the "liberal media".

... which raises the question about why we're wasting the cage space and mouse food on this experiment in the first place.

Because we, unlike the x-ians, have to continually test our beliefs aginst reality, and we also like to know exactly how, why, where, when (special case of where) those beliefs hold true. More importantly, we like to know what causes those beliefs to stop being true, so we cane improve it.

 

[drkitten]

Because we, unlike the x-ians, have to continually test our beliefs aginst reality....

Not in the sense you seem to imply. I doubt, for example, that there's a single biology department in the world that would waste lab space attempting to replicate Pasteur's disproof of the theory of spontaneous generation -- that belief has already been tested and there are more interesting beliefs ahead of it in line to be tested.

 

[GodMark2]

Not in the sense you seem to imply. I doubt, for example, that there's a single biology department in the world that would waste lab space attempting to replicate Pasteur's disproof of the theory of spontaneous generation -- that belief has already been tested and there are more interesting beliefs ahead of it in line to be tested.

Actually, a great many labs across the world are doing just that, only now they call it "research into abiogenesis".

 

[Imrational]

Not in the sense you seem to imply. I doubt, for example, that there's a single biology department in the world that would waste lab space attempting to replicate Pasteur's disproof of the theory of spontaneous generation -- that belief has already been tested and there are more interesting beliefs ahead of it in line to be tested.

The Pasteur experiment is conducted every year in classrooms across America.

 

[drkitten]

Actually, a great many labs across the world are doing just that, only now they call it "research into abiogenesis".

Wrong. Which part of "replicate" did you somehow miss?

 

[GodMark2]

Wrong. Which part of "replicate" did you somehow miss?

Be careful before declaring someone wrong. My original proposition was that we would "have to continually test our beliefs aginst reality". Your reply was that people would not be replicating one particular experiment. My reply to that was intended to illustrate that, while we may accept the results of that single experiment (which was replicated many times before being accepted, and as Imrational points out, is still replicated many times each year), we have continued to look into the question "Does life arise from lifelessness?".