uwot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:58 pm Precis?
The theory behind Darwinian evolutionism, is that the observable changes in anatomy shown in the fossil record, and the beaks of finches on the Galapagos Islands, is the result of natural selection, rather than divine meddling. There is no way, other than god coming clean and admitting he did it, to falsify either hypothesis.
Well, that is true, of course. In the same way we can't falsify Last Thursdayism (God created the world last Thursday and tricked us in to thinking it is very old).
But we can falsify (tentatively) evolutionary theory. Find a fossil of humans contemporaneous with that of a dinosaur and evolutionary theory is blow to smithereens,
Of course, we never find such a thing, and it is this (along with much else) that gives us confidence that the theory of evolution is a good model of the real world.