learn from their errors; they evolve. Others keep making the same mistakes over and over but claim they are carrying out God's will.

If the first group is to be believed, God is pretty smart. Maybe even smart enough to create the Universe. If the second group is to be believed, God is too stupid to tie his shoes. All of which seems pretty ironic.

but Ouch!

Provide evidence to support your claims. If you don't have good evidence to support your claims, you really don't have a believable argument. You then move out of the realm of facts and into the realm of faith regarding your point of view. I'm not going to tell anyone what they can and cannot believe, but don't try to get me to believe it too if you have no evidence to back it up.

If you throw a ball up a hundred quadrillion time and observed that it falls back every single time, you still cannot conclusively claim that the ball will fall back the next time. Where's your evidence?

flying in tandem with a woven net, will swoop down and grab the ball just before it attracts the earth back to itself.

After all, it is not the ball that moves, but rather, the earth.

"Great" was getting off on the right foot, then totally derailed. Hey, "Great", have you ever heard the difference between a scientific "theory" and a "law". It is the "law of gravity", which gives it much more standing than the "theory of evolution". Both are credible based on observations, unlike the "opinion of hank".

Evolution may be the best at this.

Altho' I think we have now actually "seen" evolution. Something about crickets who's "song" also attracts a predator (I can't remember where this is happening) so the crickets that don't sing are surviving...even tho' it's more difficult to mate. The song is created by little barbs on the wing cases that they rub back and forth. The barbs in a majority of crickets now are gone or very tiny and ineffective. The behavior hasn't changed, but the structure of the wing cases.

Where did I read this? Somewhere on the Science board?

but there are so many examples of observations related to evolution. The one that I use all the time is super-bugs. Funny how people who do not believe in evolution do believe that there are super-bugs that have a resistance to antibiotics. I don't know how they rationalize this, but it is either that 1) they don't know what evolution is or 2) they think that God created these super-bugs...modern "miracles" do occur.

With the crickets, I would say that it is more an example of "natural selection", which is different from "evolution". I remember the premiere example of natural selection was the moths in England. Most of them were white and lived camouflaged on birch tree trunks. When the Industrial Revolution put so much soot in the air that the tree trunks got dirty and blackened, the white moths were easily seen and eaten, so they disappeared and the black ones lived to breed. It was not evolution, but it is a component of the theory. If my memory isn't gone (and that is possible these days), evolution is a slight change in the DNA from mutation that rarely will give an advantage to the organism, so it succeeds and prospers.

When the tree trunks changed , black moths lived and the white ones died.

From good ol' Wikipedia:

The evolution of the peppered moth over the last two hundred years has been studied in detail. Originally, the vast majority of peppered moths had light colouration, which effectively camouflaged them against the light-coloured trees and lichens which they rested upon. However, because of widespread pollution during the Industrial Revolution in England, many of the lichens died out, and the trees that peppered moths rested on became blackened by soot, causing most of the light-coloured moths, or typica, to die off from predation. At the same time, the dark-coloured, or melanic, moths, carbonaria, flourished because of their ability to hide on the darkened trees.[1]

Since then, with improved environmental standards, light-coloured peppered moths have again become common, but the dramatic change in the peppered moth's population has remained a subject of much interest and study, and has led to the coining of the term industrial melanism to refer to the genetic darkening of species in response to pollutants. As a result of the relatively simple and easy-to-understand circumstances of the adaptation, the peppered moth has become a common example used in explaining or demonstrating natural selection.[2]

Also, matter isn't 'real' either, it's just energy.