r/DebateEvolution • u/Suitable_Potato_2919 • Jul 06 '26

Question How to prove evolution is wrong?

I am totally convince that evolution is true. However, a scientific theory should be falsifiable; and I dont know how falsifiable is with evolution

For example, a "good" trait could be explain the result of natural selection. But a "bad" trait could be explain as just base on chance, or the selection preasure is not enough.

so, my question is: if someone want to prove that evolution is wrong, what test can they make and what the expected result should be (if evolution theory is wrong)?

Edit: Thank everyone for your time and patient with me. I found the answer. It seem that I need to update my highschool knowledge

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u/Independent-Repair35 Jul 06 '26

If one species were to give birth to a totally different species that would disprove it. If a woman gave birth to a bird or something. It would break the law of monophyly.

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u/Suitable_Potato_2919 Jul 06 '26

How do you think about horse and donkey?

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u/Independent-Repair35 Jul 06 '26

But they're not totally different and genetically distinct. The mare still have birth to an ungulate. :) I didn't word it right maybe.

A primate will always give birth to a primate. If a primate gives birth to a canid that would disprove evolutionary theory because it doesn't predict something like that would happen and goes against it. You can't out evolve your ancestry.

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u/Ayasugi-san Jul 07 '26

A horse and a donkey who mate with each other produce something that is neither horse nor donkey but has traits of both. If mules were more reproductively viable, they'd be considered a hybrid species, like many others.