(May 30, 2014 at 9:52 pm)whateverist Wrote:(May 30, 2014 at 9:33 pm)BlackSwordsman Wrote: Didn't even notice that! i saw UCG didn't get the meaning. my bad.
Rephrasing the question: Can evolution be disproved?
Theoretically, yes. If a theory which better explains and predicts the available data comes along, sure. Hard to imagine how anything radically different than evolution could accomplish that. More likely refinements will continue, but nothing major.
A theory which merely better explains and predicts the available data does not disprove evolution. It suggests that evolution is less likely to be right than this new theory based on available data. It does not prove this new theory to therefore be right and evolution wrong.
By rigorous standards you would need to show this new theory is overwhelmingly better at explaining and predicting than evolution.
To disprove evolution conclusively one must disprove there is negligible chance of evolution occurring.
