{"id":557,"date":"2011-02-01T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/02\/februarys-carnival-of-evolution-is-just-in-time-for-darwin-day.html"},"modified":"2011-02-01T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:45:00","slug":"februarys-carnival-of-evolution-is-just-in-time-for-darwin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/02\/februarys-carnival-of-evolution-is-just-in-time-for-darwin-day.html","title":{"rendered":"February’s Carnival Of Evolution Is Just In Time For Darwin Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It\u2019s time for the Carnival of Evolution!<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s edition can be found at Denim and Tweed<\/a> where blogger Jeremy Yoder has cleverly composed it as a letter from Charles Darwin to his friend, Joseph Hooker.<\/p>\n

The great part of these monthly compilations is that they remind us that evolution is not just a theory\u2026it\u2019s a SCIENTIFIC theory.\u00a0 I know I don\u2019t have to tell any of you that this means that it\u2019s a conceptual framework that explains and accounts for existing observations and facts that are provided by multiple sources of information.\u00a0 It also makes falsifiable or testable predictions (in the case of evolution this includes predictions of what will and won\u2019t be discovered in the fossil record).<\/p>\n

The following is NOT a good definition of a scientific theory:<\/p>\n

Science tries to answer the \u201chow\u201d question, and one of the possible theories it gives is evolution.\u00a0 A theory means no one is sure; it is a good guess based on the knowledge we already have.\u00a0 Lots of things we think are true are really just theories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For political reasons, I\u2019m not citing my source.\u00a0 I\u2019ve left clues in more than one previous blog entry.\u00a0 We can make it a contest.\u00a0 If you discover the source, send it to my e-mail and you\u2019ll win a prize of some kind or another.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the Carnival!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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