I have some questions about semantics. Is evolution a science, or should
it be evolutionary biology that is the science? The observation below is
also predicted by progressive creation, but that may not qualify as
science since it involves some supernatural action.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Don Winterstein wrote:
> Moorad wrote:
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> "Evolution is not an experimental science. Is it? ...."
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> It is. It allows many predictions. One of the most powerful: Fossils in a bed of a given geologic age will be the same many miles away in a bed of the same age, provided the depositional environment was similar. This prediction has been substantiated innumerable times, and its validity has been widely used for dating sedimentary layers. Also, the kind of prediction Charles Carrigan suggests below has been substantiated many times, usually in somewhat more complicated situations.
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> Don
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