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To: Protagoras

--sorry about that


I am just really looking for someon who thinks there is some way to falsify evolution.

I think today's court decision solidifies that evolution is not falsifiable. Any counter hypothesis would be deemed a Christian conspiracy and therefore an establishment of religion.

If anyone can explain how evolution is falsifiable, I would like to know.


750 posted on 12/20/2005 12:39:13 PM PST by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67
If anyone can explain how evolution is falsifiable, I would like to know.

Simplicity itself. Find a million-year-old Homo Sapiens fossil, and the ToE has been falsified.

772 posted on 12/20/2005 12:48:30 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: lonestar67
If anyone can explain how evolution is falsifiable, I would like to know.

Find an endogenous retrovirus identically positioned in the human and gorilla genome, and not present in the chimp genome in order to do tremendous damage to the theory of evolution. Find a few more similar anomalies in other genomes to bang the nails in evolution's coffin. Some creationists predicted that molecular evidence like that would falsify evolution as we mapped genomes. They were wrong. Instead, the retroviral evidence has stunningly vindicated evolution, matching as it does the predictions of the phylogenetic tree.

Alternatively find a rabbit fossil in pre-cambrian strata. Untold millions of fossil finds made since Darwin's day match the predictions of the theory of evolution.

Find an identical species of flightless bird native to two remote oceanic islands to falsify the theory of evolution. (Hint: we've already looked, and we couldn't find any, flightless bird species on oceanic islands are always unique to that island, for an evolutionary reason that you'll work out if you think about it)

There are loads and loads more ways that evolution could potentially be falsified, but where the real evidence when studied ends up vindicating evolution. Google is your friend. :)

979 posted on 12/20/2005 1:57:12 PM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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