Where the hell did the bugs come from?

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No actually gravity is also a theory.

But it is a theory with a staggering amount of evidence suporting it. Exactly like evolution.

Facts are things that evidence repeatedly and observably supports. Again, try looking things up.

Yes Evolution is a theory & Gravity is a Law. But that has nothing to do with validity of either. Scientists obsess with classification. Its the only way that huge amounts of information can be correctly processed & referenced.

A Law in science is a classification of something that applies in all places at all times. The only variable being intensity. Gravity is a force found everywhere in the universe. So it is classified as a LAW.

Evolution is classified as a theory simply because it, like anything else only related to the Earth, can not be categorized as something applying everywhere.

The only planet with complex sentient life we know of is this one. So there is no way to know how life is formed on other worlds. Here on earth we know life evolved through natural selection. The word evolution itself is a general term, Natural Selection is the key concept since it specifies the mechanism of evolution. as discovered by Darwin.

There is no way to know if natural selection applies to all life, on all worlds with life. So until we find some other world like ours, Evolution will remain a theory.

Natural selection has shown itself to be correct in the absence of anything else that would take into account all the information we have gathered & still give us the same outcome we can observe. Natural selection as a theory has provided valid results in every single earth related science from geology to genetics.

Natural selection does not necessarily negate the possibility of an absolute intelligent causality. All it does is say that this system that has resulted in
human life shows no detectable signs of having been artificially created, altered or guided by outside forces since the process began on this earth.

All that would mean, for those who believe in an intelligent causality, is that the intelligent causality created a system so perfect, immense & subtle in its complexities, that it looks to us like it came about on its own.

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Its likely that you're misunderstanding the nomenclature here. In scientific literature, there are largely laws, theories and hypotheses. When there is a staggering amount of evidence to test positive for a hypothesis, it essentially gets called a theory. That may seem counter-intuitive against our colloquial usage of the word but it is what it is. I hope you don't dismiss evolution too quickly because it is accepted as fact by the gross majority of the science community, unless proved otherwise through peer-reviewed publications.

The theory of evolution.
The theory of wave-particle duality.
The theory of relativity.
They all explain our world fabulously, it is sheer hypocrisy to accept some theories and reject certain others based on predisposed notions or 'intuition' or religion.

The difference between theory and law is a bit more abstract and I'm not going to get into that here.


In the words of Otto:
Zeppelin Rulllesss!!

"when you come by a factory, any factory, take a good look at it. there's not just stuff coming out of one end, there's stuff going in on the other. to fabricate anything, you have to have raw material, or parts pre-fabricated from raw material.

what raw material is on mars to produce CO2 from it? more than likely you don't just have to "drop giant CO2 factories", you have to drop the raw material for them. why not just drop frozen CO2?"

Actually, the atmosphere of Mars is over 95% CO2, so I'm not sure you'd want to add more of that. You would want to add tremendous volumes of N2 and O2 to make it anywhere comparable to Earth's atmosphere. I'm not sure about N2, but O2 could be converted from Martian rock itself (much of it is composed of minerals containing oxygen, including iron oxide ("rust")). So you'd build gigantic ore smelters, basically.