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To: freedumb2003
Easy. Find a modern human skeleton in the same strata as a dinosaur. Or even a modern horse.

But what if there were nothing to find, for the simple reason that such evidence isn't there, because such a thing — the contemporeity of humans and dinosaurs — never was? Then we'd just be "waiting for Godot"....

But assuming the fossil record were to show that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time, how does that help corroborate Darwin's theory of speciation?

64 posted on 06/04/2009 12:23:41 PM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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To: betty boop
But what if there were nothing to find, for the simple reason that such evidence isn't there, because such a thing — the contemporeity of humans and dinosaurs — never was? Then we'd just be "waiting for Godot"....

You asked for the ability to falsify. I provided the criteria. A theory that can be falsified sort of loses. The fact that falsification data have not come to light does not undermine the theory. It merely means that such data are not available.

TToE is, indeed, falsifiable. Easily. Thus it meets all criteria for a Scientific Theory.

69 posted on 06/04/2009 1:01:10 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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