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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: dan1123
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.

So it can never be proven or disproven but it is science? LOL

125 posted on 03/14/2007 10:29:06 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: dan1123
Evolution can be falsified by finding a fossil that is too evolved for the age of the surrounding rock.

Evolution makes predictions about what type of fossils will be found in different layers. They then look in those layers. If they found a fossilized house cat (or anything like that) among the dinosaurs in undisturbed rock evolution would be disproven.

Further finding anything that truly was 'irreducibly complex' would also disprove evolution. Note for something to be 'irreducibly complex' we have to understand it. Because we don't understand something (yet) doesn't make it 'irreducibly complex'.

Now it's your turn. What would falsify ID? What would falsify YEC?

133 posted on 03/14/2007 10:39:16 AM PDT by Dinsdale
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