JAK,
I see you continue to rebel against the Lord.
Recognize:
1 The Protestant Reformation gave rise to your religious group.
Yes! Bruce R. McConkie taught that Martin Luther was inspired and was sent as an
Elias to pave the way for the restoration.
2 Religious groups which have different fictions claim theirs is reliable.
Yes! And they all error, as Joseph Smith taught.
3 Realize that none is reliable in that they disagree with one another. So-called restoration groups have no more credibility than any other group which is a resultant following the 1517 CE Protestant Reformation period in religious evolution.
Yes again! The false restoration groups certainly are in error!
It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution
Why that's strange. If I were an evolutionist, which I'm not, I would argue that evolution is both a fact and a theory. JAK, why is special relativity still called a theory when all experimental evidence supports it? Why is quantum mechanics and dynamics also often refered to as "quantum theory?" Is it because a "scientific theory" is typically used among scientists as an explanatory framework rather than the eighth-grade textbook usage of merely a well-supported hypothesis? Gravity is a fact, as all of us who have thrown pebbles off the top of the Church Office Building know, but there is also a "theory of Gravity" even though it is a fact.
There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago.
I agree completely, the earth is less than 7 thousand years old.
Your bias is irrelevant. Why? It lacks consensus which is fundamental to discovery. Also, it is fundamental in discovery that consensus is achieved by testing, skeptical review, further testing, and accumulation of additional evidence. It's an on-going and continuous process for reliable discovery.
The doctrines of the church have been tested through careful study and prayer by millions, including 15 living men who are prophets, seers, and revelators. Evolution has received nowhere near this kind of support.
Scientific researchers propose specific hypotheses as explanations of natural phenomena, and design experimental studies that test these predictions for accuracy. These steps are repeated in order to make increasingly dependable predictions of future results.
Which predictions of macroevolution has science tested repeatedly? I'm pretty curious about that one. How many men have been produced in laboratory conditions from evolving monkeys? Is this something that has been done hundreds or thousands of times over?
Discovery and consensus about information are continuous. Conclusions in science are tentative conclusions. That is, they are subject to skeptical review, and subject to further testing.
Ah, now this is interesting. At what point brother JAK, are conclusions in science considered facts? Was Newton's Theory of Gravity a fact during thousands of experiments which verified it, even though it was false all along? Isn't it also true that Evolution is open to further testing? Isn't it possible that Evolution could be falsified? I personally, firmly believe one day it will be shown that Satan planted the entire fossil record to deceive us.
Principles of physics are genuine discoveries. Generally, these principles are tested continuously and found to be reliable. Gravity is reliable (for example).
Oh they are? What about the nearly entire corpus of theoretical physics, JAK? What about String Theory? Quantum Loop Gravity? Twister Theory? M-Theory? K-Theory? Brane Theory? Which recent tests have found any of these theories reliable? And funny you should bring up Gravity as it's about top on the charts for why all this theoretical physics exists in the first place. Which theory of Gravity JAK, is entirely reliable? We all have hopes that when the Large Hadron Collider is running at full operational capacity that something from the last 30 years of theoretical physics might be tested but the prospects aren't entirely sunny. I personally hope that the LHC will shed light on the nature of our spirit bodies and how God can read our thoughts faster than the speed of light, but if not, I'll wait until the next life.
No evidence supports your claim regarding “the true gospel.” It’s another example of truth by assertion.
JAK, you can know for yourself it's true. But first you will have to soften your heart. Invite the Holy Spirit through prayer and fasting. And then sup upon the pages of Testaments, Old, New, and Other. Kneel down in a quiet place, and raise your voice to a loving Father in Heaven and ask him, humbly - do not, and I repeat, do not demand a sign - ask him for a witness of the truthfulness of this great Latter-Day work.
Now go ye forth, and do not procrastinate the day of your repentence.
Amen.