(May 5, 2017 at 12:12 am)Grandizer Wrote:(May 4, 2017 at 2:49 pm)alpha male Wrote: A prediction was made that a certain type of fossil (lobe-finned fish with characteristics that could be useful for transition to land) would be found in a certain place, that place being based on habitat (shallow water) and age (before first tetrapod).
But, after it was found, tetrapod fossils were found which were 10 million years older.
Suppose this is so (I will do some Google search on this later to confirm), then the prediction is falsified and theory is adjusted accordingly to fit the counter-evidence. Beauty of science.
If this was an example of a falsified prediction among many successful predictions, then yeah, you could call that science. But that's not the case. Paleontology is better considered as history rather than science.