Godless Dave

And it is.

Paul2

Maybe this is the wrong thread for this, but what does evolution have to do with materialism?

Wyz_sub10

Yes, but that's another "argument in reverse."

It's not:

"We are all similar because we all do 'A'"

Rather, it's:

"We all do 'A' because we are similar."

Content dictates function, not the other way around.

Albion

That doesn't make it so. Creationism is unfalsifiable by definition because it depends on the actions of an omnipotent deity who can override the laws of nature at will. The predictions of scientific theories are dependent on the laws of nature, so creationism doesn't count as one of those theories unless God constrains himself to acting within the laws of nature - in which case you have theistic evoluion, not creationism. Craetionism can explain everything and its stellar opposite by saying that it pleased God to do it, and that means it isn't science.

In Origin of Species, Darwin pointed out a whole series of tests that could be used to invalidate evolution. Under those circumstances, it's simple ignorance to say that evolution is unfalsifiable. It's even more idiotic to say, as a lot of creationists say quite seriously, that evolution is both unfalsifiable and false.

Happy Wonderer

Finding that the human genome to be more similar to a hamster's than some other species of ape would have tossed a large (ahem) monkey wrench in the gears of the theory. That is what we call falsification.

The fact that the genetic data supports the theory so well is nothing short of an amazing level of confirmation, given that gene theory was completely unknown in Darwin's time.

HW