Evolution isn’t falsifiable. That’s the problem.
Yes, science requires proof. If someone give me an electrical engineering problem, I can solve it through the application of Kirchoff’s Laws, or I can build the circuits. If the numbers do not match, then I have made an error along the way.
Evolution doesn’t work that way. We simple don’t have the means to test evolutionary theory in an empirical fashion.
Until then, there is no difference between Kipling and Darwin.
Never understood why Evolution and Religion are mutually exclusive....I believe evolution is simply the way God works.
What aspect of evolution (or common descent of species) do you think is unfalsifiable?
I can take ten colonies of bacteria, subject them to ten different stresses, and derive populations that can survive the stress (through genetic changes) that previously they could not. This is reproducible.
What is absolutely falsifiable is the Creationist position that there will be no change at all (i.e. no evolution) or that any mutation will be maladaptive and lead to the degradation of the species, or that the changes were selected from variations that ‘pre - existed’ within the population.
Look into ERV sequences and then try to tell me with a straight face that common descent of species is also not falsifiable.
The pace at which we are gaining biological information keeps increasing, and every bit of data further confirms the pattern expected if one assumes common descent of species.
Besides, unless you think EVERY species that currently existed fit on an Ark of known dimensions - then you accept speciation - the arising of new species from a common ancestor. Those that accept a literal account of the Bible actually accept the common descent of species and evolution at a rate far beyond any proposed by evolutionary biology - they just don't accept evolution between “kinds” whatever the current and individual meaning of that is.
So what mechanism would you use to explain the arising of every modern species from those that could fit on a boat of known dimensions?
What mechanism would you use to explain the arising of antibiotic resistance?
What mechanism would you use to explain the environmental adaptations of different human populations?
Do you have a mechanism? Do you think you don't need one?