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To: voltaires_zit
potentially falsifiable hypothesis to go with that yet?

What's falsifiable about evolution?

117 posted on 03/14/2007 10:11:57 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”)
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To: DungeonMaster

"What's falsifiable about evolution?"

Nothing. It's a historical science that starts with a fact (life came into existence) and throws hypotheses out until there is a "smoking gun" that makes one hypothesis the accepted one. Falsifiability is limited to experimental sciences.

The problem with evolution is that "smoking guns" are hard to come by since these are living creatures, and there's an aversion to attributing anything to the supernatural in science.


122 posted on 03/14/2007 10:25:00 AM PDT by dan1123
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To: DungeonMaster

> What's falsifiable about evolution?

Evolution in what sense?

There's the observed fact of evolution, that the frequency of alleles in a population drifts with time. Obviously, that could be falsified by finding a population whose allele frequency was constant across many generations, despite environmental pressures. It's about as likely to happen as dropping an apple and watching it float into space.

But I suspect your question is more about either so-called "macroevolution", common descent or abiogenesis. It should be pointed out that only the first two relate to the theory of evolution. Abiogenesis is a seperate field all together. All of these involve testable hypotheses, too, though.


124 posted on 03/14/2007 10:27:45 AM PDT by voltaires_zit (Government is the problem, not the answer.)
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