>Evolutionary theory, as it is practices is a forensic science.
It could, in theory, be tested as a scientific process by
taking a 'target' life form, dividing it into two (or more)
breeding colonies that can't intermix, and wait to see what
happens. It is likely that you'd have to study the beings for a
long time, but if you had genetic records of each generation
then you could record evolution as fact.<
Conveniently, bacteria and viruses reproduce rapidly
enough to make this feasible, and in fact such experiments
are now fairly common. There are also the long-term but
less documented experiments of domestication, in which a
subpopulation separated from the parent population and
subjected to different selective pressures has become
quite different over the past few thousand years.
Dr. David Campbell
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