RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 11, 2019 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2019 at 11:09 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
Quote:Every possible outcome if the theory of evolution is correct. Outcomes that don't depend on common descent aren't included. If one occurs, you've falsified at least part of evolution. The theory will have to be revised to account for the new information, or possibly scrapped if the evidence is too contradictory, for example if it were to turn out that lemurs are more closely related genetically to bananas than gorillas.
Focusing on the banana comment, I don't know if lemurs being more closely related to bananas than gorillas is grounds for scrapping the theory. As long as relatedness is present anywhere, the theory doesn't care which species are in fact related. The only thing that would change is our concept that gorillas and lemurs are related, but little else.