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To: longshadow
Well, this is a long time replying so I apologize.

After decades of the theory of evolution I would submit to you that in practice it has proved to be not falsifiable. I.e., every time it predicts something that doesn't pan out the way it predicted or some discovery makes it much less probable or even mathmatically impossible, the basic premise of evolution is never questioned.

96 posted on 03/30/2002 7:28:55 AM PST by The Man
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To: The Man
After decades of the theory of evolution I would submit to you that in practice it has proved to be not falsifiable.

But I gave you one specific example of how it is falsifiable (find widespread mammalian fossils in the Pre Cambrian strata). There are many others. The point is to be a scientific theory, it need only be CAPABLE of being falsified.

I.e., every time it predicts something that doesn't pan out the way it predicted or some discovery makes it much less probable or even mathmatically impossible, the basic premise of evolution is never questioned.

Because whatever errors there were in previous predictions, they were due to misinterpretation of details, not to flaws in the fundamental premises of the theory.

103 posted on 03/30/2002 12:26:36 PM PST by longshadow
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