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To: Question_Assumptions; js1138
Please tell me how one could falsify evolution

If I may...Haldane's classic example is finding a rabbit fossil in a Cambrian stratum. But we could also find a mammalian genome that is closer to that of a fish than to other mammals.

984 posted on 09/22/2005 11:09:37 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (I'm a victim, you're a victim, he's a victim, she's a victim, wouldn't you like to be a victim too?)
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To: Right Wing Professor
If I may...Haldane's classic example is finding a rabbit fossil in a Cambrian stratum. But we could also find a mammalian genome that is closer to that of a fish than to other mammals.

Would those really falsify the entire theory of natural selection and evolution? What would each of those finds suggest as an alternative? If a particular pheonomenon did not have a natural explanation (e.g., a miracle), would science be able to deal with it?

Of course another way of looking at it is that ID isn't an independent theory so much as it's a commentary on evolution and an encouragement to see if one can find a rabbit fossil in the Cambrian stata or a genome that isn't where it belongs.

1,042 posted on 09/22/2005 1:55:37 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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