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Thursday, May 6, 2010

What to say if someone says "Evolution cannot be observed or repeated".

Just a quick "post save" from a brief conversation on a youtube video.

Poplolli131 - Look, I can't be stuffed having this argument over youtube. watch askcliffe (that's his username) I just want to say that the theory of evolution is nothing like gravity, or electromagnetism, because there is nothing scientific about it, it's not science because it can not be observed or repeated,? I don't care whether they try to pass it off as 'science' the fact is that Scientists don't know any more than anybody else does about how the world was created and it annoys me that they pretend to!

sschlosnagle @Poplolli131 - Everything about Evolution is scientific. And everything about is observable and testable.

Examples:
Lenski's long-term E. coli evolution experiment
Shows observed speciation, evolution through mutation and natural selection in a controlled laboratory environment.

Nylon-eating bacteria, a strain of Flavobacterium
An observed instance of evolution through mutation and natural selection in the wild, documented and studied in the 1970's.

Ensatina salamanders, one example of Ring Speciation
Tested and verified evidence of evolution.

I could literally go on for pages, if you would like.
Whatever sort of scientific evidence you want, it is available for evolution.

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