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by Topher on October 31st, 2008

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Can the "Theory of Evolution" be proven scientifically? Meaning can I use the Scientific Method to prove its validity? Or is there another way?

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on October 31st, 2008

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    No scientific Theory can be proved - it can only be disproved. That is in the nature of science: a Theory is simply a Hypothesis that has satisfied many tests and defeated may attempts at disproof. However, a theory can be tested - and frequently is. The theory could very easily be *disproved* - by finding human bones in the same strata as dinosaur bones, for example. Or any other mixture of remains from what are regarded as widely differing times. You can also see evolution in action - for example, in the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The large the species you want to see evolution in, the longer it will take, because it seems to take a few hundred generations for evolution to show up clearly. In bacteria, that may be only months; in mammals that is usually the better part of a century.

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    • Good answer. A theory approaches fact when it is tested enough and found to be consistant. But even the best theories (including evolution) will be fine tuned and improved over time. The scientific method allows for improvement in a theory as well as rejection.

      james the first

      by james the first on November 6th, 2008

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