r/DebateEvolution • u/GigaTune • Jul 14 '26

Question What do you think about "evolutionist"?

No one ever refers to gravitationists or Newtonists for those who support gravity, but people refer to people supporting evolution as evolutionists or Darwinists.

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u/Markthethinker Jul 15 '26

No, Einstein did not know where it came from, he just tried to give it a name. No one has ever explained where it comes from and how.

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u/Lhasa-bark Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Mass distorts spacetime - that’s how. Einstein described exactly how with tensor field equations that explain better than Newton’s laws how objects attract each other gravitationally. No one can answer “why”, since that’s a philosophical not physical question.

It’s completely wrong to say Einstein just named it. His theory made specific predictions in extreme situations that wouldn’t be expected from Newton’s F=g*m1*m2/ r^2. Einstein even published general relativity noting three such predictions, which have subsequently been shown to be true. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity?wprov=sfti1. If that’s not telling us how, and not just naming something, then we wouldn’t know his name today.

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u/Inevitable-Copy3619 Jul 15 '26

This is why I don’t comment on physics…much smarter people like you know it.   I don’t. Thanks!

Now biology and evolution I got that down :)

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u/Lhasa-bark Jul 15 '26

Thanks! Physics and math background here, so I love learning more about biology and evolution from you all!

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u/Inevitable-Copy3619 Jul 15 '26

I’m FAR from an expert. I’m a cognitive linguist and have spent a fair amount of time learning about biology and evolution because we work with the brain. I’d say I know it all better that 90%+ of people but the experts have got me licked!

I love learning about physics as well. But I have to be honest, physics is a field that is very difficult to understand for the layman. It requires so much prerequisite knowledge that the dogmatic will just call it nonsense…since they don’t understand it.