DNA Analysis proves evolution

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 Ron Webb wrote:

Don't you guys ever get tired of saying it's "just a theory", as if that means something?  You already know the response, right? -- The theory of gravity is also "just" a theory.  So what? 

While theory of gravity has some observational and experimental evidence to its credit, evolution has nothing in these aspects:

 At least you can observe an apple always falling down to the earth, but you never observe a chimpanzee becoming a human.

Newton�s law of gravitation gives an approximation of gravity for most situations, TE has no such laws to get support from.

Gravity at least has Galileo�s experiments, but TE again has none.

 Ron Webb wrote:

DNA analysis is experimental evidence.  Did you read the opening post? 

Where is the experimental evidence? There is only a speculation that 2% variation in DNA between humans and chimpanzees suggests a possibility of evolution. Experimental evidence will be when you try to mutate a chimpanzee to bridge this 2% gap and then succeed to turn it to a man.

On the other hand I would say if humans with 99.99% same DNA can be so different with so many races, a 200 times difference between humans and chimpanzees means an unbridgeable gap between 2 species.

 Ron Webb wrote:

Scientists are very reluctant to use the word "proved", which is why the theory of gravity is also still "just a theory".  But no serious scientist doubts either theory. 

As I mentioned earlier, theory of gravity looks more plausible with some observational and experimental evidence. But ET lacks both and there are serious rebuttals to the theory  of evolution(Evolution Impossible, Intelligent Design) 

 Ron Webb wrote:

Because we have no significant evidence regarding the origin of life.  When we don't know, we say we don't know.  We don't just make stuff up (unlike some people)

ET stands as one classic example for made up stuff. Normally an observation comes first, and then a theory to explain that with some experimental evidence. In the case of ET, the theory came first and then more and more theories to make the original theory look like a theory � no observation, no experimental evidence!

 Ron Webb wrote:

Because the fossil record is necessarily incomplete; and because every time we fill in a gap, you guys just say that creates two more gaps.  But as I said, we don't need the fossil record to prove common ancestry, any more than we need your grandfather's bones to prove that you are related to your cousins.  All we need is DNA evidence. 

What others say should not affect your case if you have a 100% perfect case.

However small the DNA gap maybe, it proves nothing unless you have at least one experimental  evidence to show that this gap shall be bridged to bring about a species change or at least one observational evidence showing the gradual change of one species to another.

 Ron Webb wrote:

 3.     The intelligent design, especially many of the fine human faculties � all that just happened out of pure chance?No, of course not.� It happened by natural selection.

Humans show many behavioral and cognitive traits and abilities that offer no apparent survival advantage (e.g. music, art, religion, ability to ponder the nature of the universe) (From: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/07/what_are_the_to_1062011.html)