Today is your lucky day. I'm going to give you all the correct answers.
Before I begin, I want to address something you wrote:
I'm also going to drop the word "theory," as well as the words "Darwin's" and "of." I'm not going to write out "Darwin's theory of evolution" every time. I will simply write "Evolution", and you are to understand that to mean nothing other than Darwin's theory as supported in "On the Origin of Species."
Having gotten that out of the way, notice your use of the words "our origins," implying origins of life. That is your first mistake. Evolution has no place in a discussion on origins of life. Evolution explain the origins of species, i.e. the extinction of species and the emergence of others. Evolution is not, however, a theory of abiogenesis. Evolution begins with the assumption that life began at some point, and I believe this assumption is universally accepted, even by those who HATE Evolution for religious reasons. Whether one believes that life was created by Yahweh, or believes that life materialized from other dimensions or that life sprung from non-life, everyone universally accepts that life began at one point. That is where Evolution begins. Life came to be, and began changing/evolving.
Ergo, Evolution is totally compatible with most belief systems, with young-earth Christians being a notable exception. Evolution requires lengthy/vast time periods whereas young-earthism precludes lengthy/vast time periods.
Let's take a look at something ThatOwlCoward wrote:
ThatOwlCoward is a moron. Evolution is not science; it is a theory, but not a scientific theory. It can't be. Science predicts nature, which describes future effects given present causes (cause <--> effect). Science cannot speak to the past. No claims about the unobserved past
can rise above being mere speculation. The Big Bang, Evolution, the location of Jimmy Hoffa's grave, etc.. are all great theories, but they are not science. Of course, fans of any particular speculation about the past will tell you that it's settled science, and even tell you that they did assignments in the 5th grade plagiarized from Encyclopedia Britanica, but they would be greatly confused.
One can see how the negligence of ThatOwlCoward's education system deprived her of the education and critical reasoning skills needed to be able to express rational political views and to effectively compete in a forum of ideas.
Of course. If they were science, they wouldn't be belief systems.
All of this is speculation, no matter how "certain" the individual making the claim might be.
Don't conflate issues. Words are omitted for ease of writing. References to the "fossil record" however, are like warmizombie (Global Warming worshiper) references to "The Data." At this point you are witnessing speculation transformed into religion, with the worshiper pointing to his source of truth, e.g. Bible, Q'ran, etc. "The Bible says 'do unto others'," "the fossil record says that frogs didn't turn green until 12:17 a.m. on Wednesday, 117,634,449 years ago after a particularly heavy rain and strong gusts coming out of the east," etc..
Always remember, you can tell when religious faith is involved when the one preaching claims some sort of omniscience, with claims of knowing the unobserved past as one of the most prevalent omniscience fallacies. The Global Warming and Climate Change religions claim to know the earth's average global equilibrium temperature with zero margin of error, ocean level rise to infinite precision (2.2mm/year), average ocean level pH with no margin of error, and everything else about nature because devotion to the faith brings divine wisdom and knowledge.
Remember scientists can be religious. Warmizombies and climate lemmings are forever citing scientists among their clergy as confirmation that their faith is true. That logic implies that Christianity is confirmed because of those scientists who proclaim Christianity. Likewise, Islam is confirmed to be true. In fact, all the religions must therefore be true, all at the same time.
Let me know if you have any questions.
