(May 26, 2016 at 11:49 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:AAA Wrote:You still never told me how evolution was falsifiable. You can't just say that anyone who thinks it isn't falsibiable just doesn't understand it. Give a criteria. And remember that I'm not questioning conventional geologic time.
The theory of evolution can be used to make predictions, such as in what strata we can expect to find (or not find) a particular kind of heretofore undiscovered fossil in, or roughly how many novel species we can expect to find on an unexplored island that is 45 miles across, separated from other land masses by at least 700 miles in every direction, if we also know how old it is and how long it has been separate from other land masses.
Ever since it was proposed, the theory has been tested over and over, and at every turn, evidence to disconfirm evolution could have been discovered instead of evidence that fits it. Almost everything we know about genetics was discovered after Darwin and it could easily have falsified evolution instead of demonstrating a plastic system of heredity that is subject to mutations changes in allele frequency depending on reproductive success.
Shorter answer: mammal fossils in Precambrian strata would be a big problem for evolution.
I specifically said that I was not questioning geologic time. The fact is that when we look at the physiology of living systems, there is no way to falsify evolution. In other words, there is no way to find any biological process that would falsify evolution.