Evidence against creation

[Anomalocaris]

Not so hard to catch absurdities, yet it seems easier to argue against "evidence" for special creation than it is to find evidence that no creation event of any kind has ever taken place.

It was also very difficult to locate evidence for the luminiferous aether. Eventually physicists and astronomers realized it wasn't necessary. Since Darwin, I think we are kind of in the same position with instantaneous, ad hoc "creation events."

Actually, in this specific case, Michelson Morley experiment provided direct evidence that luminiferous aether in fact didn't exist, not just that it was hard to detect.    It then became an open question, addressed later, how light can propagate without it.

If one is specific about what one is looking for, and rigorously parsimonious about why one is looking at all, then it is frequently possible to show what one is looking for does not, or can not, exist.    It is only when one is intellectually dishonest about why one is looking and what would preclude the existence of what one is looking for,  as anyone who would be Christian must be about their God, that it becomes seemingly reasonable to accept categoric impossibility of proving a non-existence.