"Evolution also makes predictions which can be tested, and which are repeatable and falsifiable."
Transitional fossils. It's laughable to think that there would be a way to test/falsify those.
" The past existance of the dinosaurs is based on "inference from circumstantial evidence". Is that not science?"
It's science in the sense that what can be observed infers things. Dinosaur bones make obvious statements about creatures that lived in the past, their size, their teeth, the shape of their bones.
But there are all sorts of silly suppositions stated as fact where there really are no facts. Like the drawings of prehistoric creatures which show the type of skin or fur that they have. We had textbooks in school which showed drawings of what creatures looked like when there was no evidence for their outward appearance anywhere.
The existance of transitional fossils is a prediction of evolution. Also the testable predictions such as ERV patterns, fossil locations (ie predictions of no mammal fossils in the cambrian) are all testable, reproducable, etc.
It's science in the sense that what can be observed infers things. Dinosaur bones make obvious statements about creatures that lived in the past, their size, their teeth, the shape of their bones.
Yes and the pattern of distribution of certain structures across modern species genomes make an obvious statement about common descent. As does the pattern of the fossil record.
But there are all sorts of silly suppositions stated as fact where there really are no facts. Like the drawings of prehistoric creatures which show the type of skin or fur that they have.
Artists impressions. Don't confuse that with the science.
We had textbooks in school which showed drawings of what creatures looked like when there was no evidence for their outward appearance anywhere.
what creatures might have looked like sure.