To: ndt; DonaldC
"Anything that was truly not viable would be limited to a single isolated individual and hence you would expect to find them fairly rarely, but they do exist." Of course, the fallacy in this thinking is that (since the fossil record shows wonderfully-adapted creatures all through it) that 'less-adapted' creatures never gained enough numbers to be represented (which is DonaldC's point).
It truly is impossible to falsify a theory that actually predicts that the evidence to support it should not exist.
To: GourmetDan
It truly is impossible to falsify a theory that actually predicts that the evidence to support it should not exist.
I know you're trying to be clever with the rhetoric, but you are demonstrably wrong.
The ToE is falsifiable. It wouldn't be scientific unless it was.
Find a million-year-old homo sapiens skeleton, and you will have disproved the ToE.
"Creation Science" is not falsifiable, which is why the term itself is an oxymoron.
43 posted on
12/12/2006 9:38:08 AM PST by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: GourmetDan
"It truly is impossible to falsify a theory that actually predicts that the evidence to support it should not exist."
If you are looking for a monkey with extra limbs, you can probably find one alive today. Are you really trying to claim that the statement that "animals that are not viable will die" is somehow a evil plot to push forward an illegitimate theory?
50 posted on
12/12/2006 9:46:18 AM PST by
ndt
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