(October 27, 2017 at 8:42 am)SteveII Wrote:(October 25, 2017 at 4:38 pm)Mathilda Wrote: The theory of evolution is testable. It has been tested and found to be correct.
Regardless as to your position on evolution, this statement just isn't true unless you equivocate on the definition of 'evolution'. The word can be used in three senses:
1. Evolution (defined as "decent with modification")
2. Evolution (defined as "the mechanism that accounts for evolutionary change")
3. Evolution (defined as "reconstructing evolutionary history")
The second and third definitions are not testable and there are significant gaps in our knowledge about them. You think they are correct because #1 is correct and then through inferred by a naturalistic worldview, the other two must be correct--but that is a far cry from fact.
It's the best explanation we have right now. If a better one comes along we'll put this in the box with phlogiston.
