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Old 06-29-2013, 21:23   #110
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Originally Posted by bandaidbrand View Post
All that being said, I still think there's a lot of deep questions about the origin of life that are not answered by science at this point. I'm not naive enough to think we have all the answers, or that all our answers our right (the world was flat according to scientists once right?), but I think discounting the incredible amount of evidence that supports evolution is the mistake of someone that isn't willing to really challenge their belief structure.
"Discounting the evidence" is a false dichotomy.
Support for a theory increases or decreases with new evidence.

Unobserved, unrepeatable events can neither be proven nor disproven.
It is unfair to hold scientific theories to a "prove it" standard (this can only be done in math).

But, scientific theories can and should make falsifiable predictions.
What are some of the falsifiable predictions of evolutionary theory?
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