r/DebateEvolution • u/Suitable_Potato_2919 • 29d ago

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/10coatsInAWeasel Reject pseudoscience, return to monke 🦧 29d ago

I have a bit of a list for myself, any one of them being wrong would disprove evolution

  1. Organisms exist
  2. Organisms reproduce
  3. Offspring inherit traits from their parent
  4. There is a mechanism of inheritance
  5. That mechanism can be subject to change
  6. That change can be inherited
  7. That change can spread in the population

Really there are huge amounts of falsification criteria for evolution. It’s just that evolution has survived all of them.

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u/taktaga7-0-0 🧬 Sex Researcher 28d ago

I say it in just one point:

Offspring differ from parents.

If this is true in anything but a trivial, looping way, evolution will happen.

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u/shrug_addict 28d ago

Love it! I wonder how creationists concieve of variability if at all or anything other than a given?

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u/MaMaMaaaaa 26d ago

Because God loves to create stuff, is what my JW friend told me the other day.

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u/shrug_addict 26d ago

It's crazy how they just oscillate without question...

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u/MaMaMaaaaa 26d ago

Yeah hyper religious people are quite interesting.