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Evolution a question of faith

Wow. How can you not believe in evolution. It is a belief as it is not proven. Read Origin of the species to see what Darwin believed to be plausible. I am reading it again for the umpteenth time and still cannot find any mention that makes me believe that Darwin knew his theories as fact. His case for God is well known to the litterate out there that dont push their own ideals like the atheists or the religious.   The fact that I believe in the evolutionary process is intrinsically rooted in the fact that I have faith and belief in the extreme probability of that theory being correct. I can most definitively not state that it is a fact, the same as a believer might believe in anscestors watching over us. I cannot say that it is impossible but I might believe it to be extremely unlikely.   I find a lot of the writing on these forums to be directed as fact when the writer or believer in the fact has no scientific ground to stand on. If it is not repeatable in a scientific experiment the factor of faith or belief becomes the overwhelming weight in the argument for or against something.   Faith or belief is a personal thing. I can believe that my son is good when someone else might believe the opposite. Does it make any of us wrong. If I have paramaters that are agreeable we can experiment to see if my son is good or bad. In the abscence of these agreeable paramaters faith and belief will flourish and neither can be proven as fact.
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