Quote (TiStuff @ Jun 23 2023 06:51am)

do you even know what the definition of science is?



science hasnt the foggiest idea how life could have arouse out of some kind of naturalistic accidental means. anyone say it did dont have a clue about the science they profess to study. atheists/antitheists will even admit it if one is really "observable"
Stephen Jay Gould > Quotes > Quotable Quote
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7838107-the-extreme-rarity-of-transitional-forms-in-the-fossil-record
excerpt: Paleontologists have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study.
[Evolution’s Erratic Pace - "Natural History," May, 1977]”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Quote (death_knight @ Jun 23 2023 07:49am)

What? Interpolation / extrapolation is applied mathematics. In fact, it is used to assign validity to a prediction. The distinction is critical to something like evolution so I recommend you research the concepts.

Quote (BigSmokeHarold @ Jun 23 2023 07:50am)

Do you know the definition of religion? A scam for the weak winded


E/ your desperate poll has already been wrecked by anonymous votes

Quote (TiStuff @ 23 Jun 2023 09:25)

ex·tra·po·la·tion
noun
noun: extrapolation; plural noun: extrapolations
the action of estimating or concluding something by assuming that existing trends will continue or a current method will remain applicable.

extrapolate according to your belief. its not hard science. it could also be called "according to imaginary process" though

Quote (death_knight @ Jun 23 2023 09:11am)

No it can't be called that. Interpolation is a result or prediction taken from with a range of data. Extrapolation is a prediction that goes beyond what is actually known. For example:

The data:

I walk into a pen and counted 100 white sheep. Each sheep has an ear tag numbered 1-100. There are exactly 100 white sheep in total.

Interpolated statement: If I take 50 sheep out of the field, there will be 50 sheep left. This statement is true because it can be proven directly the data.

Extrapolated statement: Since all the sheep are white, the baby sheep of the next generation will be white. This statement cannot be proven because we don't actually know if the next generation will be white. We are basing that on the information we have clearly heritability of genes requires more information.

Make sense?

Quote (TiStuff @ Jun 23 2023 08:27am)

you have no idea your the most religious of them all

Quote (BigSmokeHarold @ Jun 23 2023 09:17am)

Must be huh, preach to your sheep

Quote (TiStuff @ 23 Jun 2023 10:17)

it doesnt work with white sheep but its good enough to prove "macro" evolution?

Quote (death_knight @ Jun 23 2023 09:32am)

What are you talking about? I was showing how interpolation and extrapolation are used to form theories. The relationship to evolution is the amount of data that has been collected. After thousands of experiments and observations, the data converges on a set of patterns known as speciation. The bulk of this theory is based on interpolated data. Scientists then use this data to make extrapolated statements about the distant past and future. The further they get away from what is actually known, the less likely that statement is to be true.

So there is a lot of things I can say about evolution that I can mathematically prove to you. On the other hand, I doubt any religious claim can be proven in the same way.

Quote (TiStuff @ 23 Jun 2023 10:42)

your discussion about interpolation and extrapolation is nothing more than red herring

here is a collection of actual statements from a scientist a atheist scientist. they know "macro" evolution has problems. I show you this kind of stuff repeatedly......... you came back at me with trickery, your only kidding your self.
Stephen Jay Gould > Quotes > Quotable Quote
[URL]https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7838107-the-extreme-rarity-of-transitional-forms-in-the-fossil-record[/URL]
excerpt: Paleontologists have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study.
[Evolution’s Erratic Pace - "Natural History," May, 1977]”
― Stephen Jay Gould

"So there is a lot of things I can say about evolution that I can mathematically prove to you. On the other hand, I doubt any religious claim can be proven in the same way."
(no one disputes the rather large generic term "evolution")