"That observation is evidence."
When did someone last observe the universe exploding into existence from out of nothingness?
How about bacteria reinventing itself and transforming into a _________ (pick your favorite species)...
Oops I almost forgot, this supposedly takes millions and billions of years to take place making OBSERVATION impossible...
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't that invalidate your theory according to your own criteria?
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>>When did someone last observe the universe exploding into existence from out of nothingness?
Rapid expansion of the universe in all directions as observed by the red shift of stars and the incredible age of the universe as observed by cosmic background radiation.
>>How about bacteria reinventing itself and transforming into a _________ (pick your favorite species)...
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html
Google is your friend.
>>Oops I almost forgot, this supposedly takes millions and billions of years to take place making OBSERVATION impossible...
Two words: fossil, record.
>>Correct me if I'm mistaken
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"When did someone last observe the universe exploding into existence from out of nothingness?"
Never. That's why we observe the universe itself in order to find the telltale signs that would either confirm or deny such an explanation; to see the products of that "explosion" rather than the explosion itself. Turns out that when observed phenomenon support an explanation that also has a method of being disproven, we have ourselves an acceptable theory.
So...lose.
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Why do people always think single celled organism will themselves to evolve? It.. it doesn't work that way...
Also we can hear the freakin' echoes of the big bang ringing out through the universe still, thats not even a little impressive?
Never, but that is no necessary.
You mean like antibiotic-resistant bacteria?
Yes, evolution take time. That doeesn't invalidate it.
No, it does not invalidate the ToE. However, if you impose that criterion on the ToE you might impose it on your creator-God idea, too. Seen God lately? Seen God create a new species?
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"When did someone last observe the universe exploding into existence from out of nothingness."
Answer 1: The expansion of the universe is directly observable.
Answer 2: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle bitch!
Oops I almost forgot, this supposedly takes millions and billions of years to take place making OBSERVATION impossible...
Car accidents take just moments to happen and, usually, there are no police officers around to observe them. Despite that, the police are very good at OBSERVING THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE DRAW CONCLUSIONS
Christ al-f***ing-mighty! How stupid are you people?
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't that invalidate your theory according to your own criteria?
We can't observe the big bang directly obviously, but when people first came up with the theory, they said "if this is true then certain other things will be true as well" at that time we didn't have the instruments to see if those things were true, but when we did, people checked, and guess what, we found out they are true. Thus proving that the big bang theory has the power to predict reality, which is a major criteria for a successful theory.
And as for evolution, it's not actually a matter of years, but of generations. Bacteria being very simple and having very short generation times (a matter of hours in good conditions for certain types), can be observed over many many generations in a matter of a few months or years. If you make several colonies of bacteria from the same parent colony (so they are all close to being genetically identical at the beginning) and expose these colonies to wildly different environmental conditions, and then let them run for a few months, when you sample the genetics of the colonies later, they will be very different from each other. This is how we observe evolution happening.
Obviously this isn't very spectacular from the outside, but the genetic change is just as large as the change that occurs over millions of years in "higher" life forms.
@GospelPete
When did someone last observe the universe exploding into existence from out of nothingness? Never, since there weren't people around to see it happen, and especially since that is not what happened. Actually, Big Bang was a derogatory name that was used to mock the concept when it was first espoused and the name stuck.
The rapid expansion of the universe for which that name was thought up did not come from nothing, but instead came from all the material that was in the universe at the time compacted into an incredibly dense and infinitesimally small state, which it was believed was made up of mostly hydrogen with some other basic gaseous elements. Once the universe began its rapid expansion, there was an unimaginable surge of energy, which was converted to mass.
And as others have said, these things we can surmise due to the fact that the universe is still expanding from the initial burst.
So get a clue and a little knowledge, moron, instead of believing the crap in the bible.
"When did someone last observe the universe exploding into existence from out of nothingness? "
The Hubble space telescope.
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.
The Tevatron.
"How about bacteria reinventing itself and transforming into a _________ (pick your favorite species)... "
How about the long-term E. Coli studies at Michigan State?
Confused?
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