It’s the ‘tuffs’ on the ears that make me special. ![]()
So, is your screen name based the trail shoe La Sportiva Karacal? There is a wild cat named caracal, though, your spelling is obviously different.
Nope.
My spelling actually started with my License plate because Caracal wasn’t available. I used to help raise and take care of Caracals and Servals.
Do they taste like chicken? Like the domestic cats used in Chinese food?
Might explain their rarity. ![]()
I like Vietnamese more, less fur. ![]()
You like your “cat” with less fur? ![]()
The collar is kinda chewy though
May the Force be with you. It clearly has not helped me. - signed grumpy hairless cat ![]()
P.S. Karacal, please do not eat me. ![]()
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I’ll be on the porch with the shotgun waiting for the vacuum cleaner salesman when I’m 90! ![]()

To get this thread back on track. Evolution is not really science. Evolution is evolution. Science is science. Evolution is considered science. Really.
Evolution, like gravity, according to all available evidence, is fact. Numerous lines of inquiry all demonstrate the fact of evolution. The study of Evolution, and the testing of hypothesis about evolution is science. The Theory of Evolution, is one of the closest things to a scientific fact. In science, for something to gain the title of Theory it has to be a system of hypotheses that have survived test after test. That is the state of evolutionary science (the study of evolutionary processes).
The Theory of Evolution evolved quite a bit since Darwin’s time. There is no reason to believe it won’t evolve anymore. So, if Darwin’s version turned out to be full of holes, how does it make it a fact? Nothing better could be said about modern state of this theory.
The factual parts are skinny. Living creatures change over time and geography. Environment plays role. The end.
It didn’t do very well. The ever branching Tree of Life for example, did not survive, but turned out to be a much more complicated shape.
It is a really hard question, which science is in a sorrier state, due to evident gaps and inconsistencies in theories. Physics, life sciences and medicine, even math! Climate science is total LOL (sorry Greta). The more we know, the more we need to learn, it seems.
theory… means very little actually…
it’s an explanation of things by someone using what they believe is a scientific approach
over and over this theory are that one gets hammered into something ELSE or dis-proven…
evolution has had over the years some very large HOLES in it…
yes there are mutations… but using them to somehow prove the theory over time FAILS…
I do NOT believe in evolution… I believe in mutations and adapting to environment…
What holes was Darwin’s version full of?
The factual parts have a lot more to them than you listed. And it’s more than environment that plays in the selection process.
The theory did quite well, and is proven more and more as we learn and develop (genetics and DNA sequencing have proven a lot of what was already laid out even more definitively, for example…yes it did reshape the tree of what evolved to what in some cases but…it’s still evolution just a matter of sorting out the direct lineages as best as possible)
There is SO MUCH to evolution, it’s amazing.
Some excellent resources if you want to learn up on it
Keep in mind, gravity is ‘just a theory’. ![]()
What are the large holes in evolution?
I guess we’ll just have to disagree… heard and read many many such claiming evolution this or that…
NOPE… all of em eventually failed when NEW information came out…
over and over too many in science CLING to things for too long and work real hard to make their view the correct one…
odd thing… certain cells are NOT supposed to survive longer then a certain amount of time…
YET those same cells have shown up in some very old fossils… they should NOT be their…
furthermore fossilization is the process of minerals REPLACING organic tissue IIRC…
news flash the tissue may have been less then 3,000 years old BUT…
the mineral that replaced it is MUCH MUCH older…
could this possibly result in some incorrect carbon dating???
how long have we known about radiation???
2 or 300 years??? yet science SEEMS to claim they know all about it???
I don’t think so… I think they decided it was this or that and in some cases are very incorrect about it…
or how it works for that matter…
gravity??? electricity??? I could go on…
Are you able to provide examples of this and that which failed?
What cells show up where they shouldn’t be?
Is evolution a science, yes without a doubt. Is evolution the truth is what the debate is truly about. Unfortunately many subscribe to the headlines or taglines, like “the science is settled.” That particular statement is a fallacy. There are many theories that need to be studied, and not just one evolutionary theory. Science is the pursuit of truth and in some cases practical application (for example physics and engineering). A theory is the best explanation based on research, evidence and experimentation, until a better one can come about or evidence or experiments prove it wrong. Actually many evolutionary Scientist may be committing a fallacy if they deny the intervention of an infinite being (for lack of a secular explanation, God.) Some Evolutionary Scientists or in other Scientific fields (very few) do acknowledge that there is some evidence of intervention of a far greater intelligence. This is one of many reasons evolution is hotly debated.
don’t be lazy LOL…
the info is out there look it up…
here is a way…“soft tissue found in fossils” (that should cease to exist after about 3,000 years???)
according to science…
found this…
one hole in evolution??? why is there NO evolution happening today???
mutations happen yes… adaptations happen yes… these are normal happenings IMHO…
but actual evolution??? how about you show us one that is happening?
or even very recently happened??
like maybe last 100 years or even 200 years??? if evolution is true it should still be happening right???
