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Debate:Can the science of evolution be separated from the philosophy of it? (view source)
Revision as of 18:55, June 5, 2008
, 18:55, June 5, 2008→YES
yeah, it's a theory that says that we share a common ancestor and you can make scientific predictions from this, such as that we should share a great deal of DNA with closely related species. It makes no philosophical predictions.
yeah, it's a theory that says that we share a common ancestor and you can make scientific predictions from this, such as that we should share a great deal of DNA with closely related species. It makes no philosophical predictions.
:That isn't the question, but in any event you have a larger problem: you cannot show that we would share any less DNA with any closely related species ''apart from'' evolution. Whether by chance or by design, the DNA sharing ratio might be the same, for this reason: when you've got something that works, you tend to use it again and again wherever you can. Why should that be any different for various forms of life from how it is for the machines that we build?
:Therefore, even if you ''have'' a lot of shared DNA, you have not falsified [[creation]] ''or'' [[intelligent design]] if those two theories predict the ''same'' phenomenon. In order to falsify any given theory, you have to find something that it predicts that does ''not'' come to pass.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 14:55, 5 June 2008 (EDT)
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