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 [[Creationism|Creationists]] have argued that evolution is not a scientific theory because it is not falsifiable, and in this respect they claim to have the support of Popper himself, as well as other evolutionists.  The [[Sweden|Swedish]] cytogeneticist, Antonio Lima-De-Faria, who has been knighted
-by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic" Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018<ref>https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/</ref>
+by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic" <ref>Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018[https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/]</ref>
 [[Karl Popper]], leading philosopher of science and originator of the idea of [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], said:<ref>{{hnb|Popper|1976|p=168}}</ref><ref name="popper">http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>

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 [[Creationism|Creationists]] have argued that evolution is not a scientific theory because it is not falsifiable, and in this respect they claim to have the support of Popper himself, as well as other evolutionists.  The [[Sweden|Swedish]] cytogeneticist, Antonio Lima-De-Faria, who has been knighted
-by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic".</ref>Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018<ref>https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/</ref>
+by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic" Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018<ref>https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/</ref>
 [[Karl Popper]], leading philosopher of science and originator of the idea of [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], said:<ref>{{hnb|Popper|1976|p=168}}</ref><ref name="popper">http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>

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 [[Creationism|Creationists]] have argued that evolution is not a scientific theory because it is not falsifiable, and in this respect they claim to have the support of Popper himself, as well as other evolutionists.  The [[Sweden|Swedish]] cytogeneticist, Antonio Lima-De-Faria, who has been knighted
-by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic".</ref>Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018<ref>https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/</ref>
+by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic".</ref>Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018<ref>https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/</ref>
 [[Karl Popper]], leading philosopher of science and originator of the idea of [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], said:<ref>{{hnb|Popper|1976|p=168}}</ref><ref name="popper">http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>

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 [[Creationism|Creationists]] have argued that evolution is not a scientific theory because it is not falsifiable, and in this respect they claim to have the support of Popper himself, as well as other evolutionists.  The [[Sweden|Swedish]] cytogeneticist, Antonio Lima-De-Faria, who has been knighted
-by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>
+by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]  Read also this review of Matti Leisola's book "Heretic".</ref>Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup, April 13, 2018, April 13, 2018<ref>https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/four-darwin-heretics-a-readers-roundup/</ref>
 [[Karl Popper]], leading philosopher of science and originator of the idea of [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], said:<ref>{{hnb|Popper|1976|p=168}}</ref><ref name="popper">http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>

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 [[Creationism|Creationists]] have argued that evolution is not a scientific theory because it is not falsifiable, and in this respect they claim to have the support of Popper himself, as well as other evolutionists.  The [[Sweden|Swedish]] cytogeneticist, Antonio Lima-De-Faria, who has been knighted
-by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref/>
+by the king of Sweden for his scientific achievements, noted that "there has never been a theory of evolution".<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00053.htm Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry, July 6, 2008, by Suzan Mazur]</ref><ref>http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-tales-from-altenberg-suzan-mazurs.html</ref>  Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola stated Darwinism to be the modern equivalent of the Phlogiston Theory that was believed for decades by explaining away all the contrary evidence. <ref>The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing, September 14, 2019, Evolution News[https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/the-modern-day-phlogiston-darwinism-explains-everything-and-nothing/]</ref>
 [[Karl Popper]], leading philosopher of science and originator of the idea of [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], said:<ref>{{hnb|Popper|1976|p=168}}</ref><ref name="popper">http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>

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 *[[Recent clamor to revise the modern evolutionary synthesis]]
 *[[Theory of Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality]]
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 * Phylogenetically close organisms that are less genetically similar than they are to phylogenetically distant organisms.<ref>[http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section1.html#independent_convergence 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution] Prediction 1.3</ref>  The theory of evolution predicts that closely related forms of life should share more DNA than distantly related forms of life.  Thus, if humans and chimpanzees shared less of their genome than humans and mice, evolution would be disproven.  Tests show that humans and mice have roughly 60 times more differences in their genome than humans and chimps, with whom humans share nearly 99% of their DNA.<ref>[http://www.genome.gov/15515096 New Genome Comparison Finds Chimps, Humans Very Similar at the DNA Level]</ref>
-The great majority of Darwinist scientists have never examined the evidence against the theory.  Watch the example of distinguished scientist Günter Bechly shows what often happens if they do listen to the other side.<ref>A German Scientist Speaks Out about Intelligent Design,
+The great majority of Darwinist scientists have never examined the evidence against the theory. Watch the example of distinguished scientist Günter Bechly showing what often happens if they do listen to the other side.<ref>A German Scientist Speaks Out about Intelligent Design,
 DiscoveryScienceNews, Published on Feb 13, 2017.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqiXgtDdEwM]</ref> Listen as Ray Bohlin talks with Michael Behe about how German paleo-entomologist Günter Bechly became interested in intelligent design.<ref>Discovering Design at a Darwin Day Exhibition, Discovery Institute, posted on January 28, 2017.[https://www.discovery.org/multimedia/audio/2017/01/discovering-design-at-a-darwin-day-exhibition/]</ref>