Evolution Is Just A Theory

I got an email earlier today from someone called Alexander. Though he didn't say in the email i get the impression Alexander is a christian who doesn't believe in evolution.

I read a blog post you made about DNA and how we share some DNA with monkeys and you use this as evidence that we evolved from monkeys. I think it should be pointed out to you that if i have an orange car and an orange house just because they are both orange dont mean they are related. Evolution is just a theory it isnt a fact and because its not a fact it cant be science, its just another form of religion.

Alexander makes the mistake commonly made by anti-evolutionists. That mistake is he hasn't got a fucking clue what he is talking about. Let's look at the points Alexander makes and systematically kick them to death.

I read a blog post you made about DNA and how we share some DNA with monkeys and you use this as evidence that we evolved from monkeys.

No, I didn't say we evolved from monkeys in that post. I said ourselves and chimpanzees share a common ancestor. I don't know if you understand the difference between "evolved form" and "share a common ancestor with", So if you don't let me know and I'll go further into it and explain the difference.

I think it should be pointed out to you that if i have an orange car and an orange house just because they are both orange dont mean they are related.

The similarity of our genetics is not what is being used as the evidence of shared ancestry. What is being used is the insertions of IRV DNA, Junk DNA, At exactly the same locations in both genomes, Something which can only realistically happen if ourselves and chimps were the same species at the time of infection.

Evolution is just a theory it isnt a fact and because its not a fact it cant be science, its just another form of religion

Ah the old "evolution is just a theory" chestnut. Evolution is a fact, it's an observable, demonstrable heavily supported fact. The theory of evolution is an explanation of that fact. Just like gravity, tides and knots are facts and gravitational theory, Knot theory and tide theory are explanations of those facts.

As for it being a religion. it's pretty stupid of the religious to try and ridicule evolution by claiming it's a "religion". An atheist could never use the claim that "religion is just science" when criticising it, Which i think says volumes about how even the religious see their belief. Even the religious see it as being dumb, unsupported mythology, why else would they say evolution is a religion if being a religion didn't automatically make something stupid?