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now im just wondering? how has evolution helped science? how has creation helped science? since niether of them help why should any of them be in our science books?

if you can tell me if either of them have then tell me.

closing and restarting a thread: sorry for the inconvinience.

Because evolution is a near-proven scientific theory supported by thousands of pieces of evidence that helps explain the existence of every living creature on earth, and creationism isn't.

now im just wondering? how has evolution helped science? how has creation helped science? since niether of them help why should any of them be in our science books?

if you can tell me if either of them have then tell me.

Just about everything in Biology either is something we know from evolution or something that would have to be wrong if evolution didn't exist. You can't separate evolution from the rest of Biology, its practically the basis.

now im just wondering? how has evolution helped science? how has creation helped science? since niether of them help why should any of them be in our science books?

if you can tell me if either of them have then tell me.
Evolution doesn't "help" Science, it is Science.

now im just wondering? how has evolution helped science? how has creation helped science? since niether of them help why should any of them be in our science books?

if you can tell me if either of them have then tell me.

Ok, Evolution has helped science because the theory itself is helpful enough to explain what goes on in biology and "fits."

Creationism does not. You can't use "God created all animals" to explain why bug species X is surviving better in Y environment.

End of story.

Evolution explains:
Why all life is based on DNA,
The peppered moth case,
Why using anti-bacterial soaps leads to anti-bacterial resistant superbacteria
Why giving antibiotics to flu patients leads to antibiotic resistant superbacteria,
Why the HIV becomes immune to various medicines after using them for a while,
How the various types of life forms came into existance (except for the first, but there are some good hypotheses for that),
Where that life can potentially go.

Creationism explains:
How the various types of life forms came into existance.

now im just wondering? how has evolution helped science? how has creation helped science? since niether of them help why should any of them be in our science books?

if you can tell me if either of them have then tell me.

Because Evolution is, basically, biology's GUT (Grand Unifying Theory). Physics has been after their own for some time right now and will most likely not find it for some time.

You see, evolution is very easily and simply defined: a change in allele frequencies within a given population. However, this doesn't really help biology, whereas the current theory of evolution is slightly more complex: change in allele frequencies within a given population by natural selection of genetic variance by niche pressures.

That simple statement, and implications thereof, can explain virtually everything biology stands for, whether it is populational genetics or viral study.