Re: Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution … Or unkind dismissal?
You asked for evidence that the theory of evolution can be falsified. Another words, is there something against which, if shown to be true, the authenticity of evolution as a whole would come into doubt.
I actually gave you two links. In each, we are told that there are a number of things, which if proven to not exist or not be verified, would bring evolution into doubt. If there was no fossil evidence, if there were no genetic or chromosomal evidence etc. All these things do exist, and so while evolution is falsifiable to the extent that were it not for the existence of such evidence, it would have been proven to invalid, that evidence has BEEN found shows that it has not been falsified. Its the lack of evidence to support it that would have made it false. There is no such lack of evidence to disprove it.
The theory has changed, but it has changed in accordance to new evidence. The basic gist of it, the basic concept has not changed. That evolution is real is an established fact, and all evidence has leant weight to it varsity.
I think the Wikilinks Link has a typo there. None the less, I provided a second link that confirms the first. In fact, a basic Google of Is Evolution Falsifiable, gives you a ton of sites to go through. But all say that evolution is a valid science since it can be potentially falsified, even though it has not been.
Darwins theory CAN be falsified, meaning, a theory for which evidence can be presented to disprove it. No evidence has been presented to disprove it. Again, it would be the LACK of evidence that would falsify it. That evidence is NOT lacking. Because there is no evidence to disprove it, instead there is evidence in proof of evolution, means that while as a science Evolution is falsifiable, that it hasn’t bee falsified means its valid.
You yourself said any Science worth the name has to be falsifiable. That does not mean that just because a theory is falsifiable, that it must then also be false. Being falsifiable does not automatically mean its has to be false. Your making the extraordinary conclusion that if evolution is falsifiable, it must be a real science, but then it isn’t falsified, so there is a grand conspiracy afoot.