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I'm curious, what exactly would make evolution seem either unlikely or flat out false to you?
Well there are some very obvious things, such as finding modern-looking fossils in very old strata, such as a flowering plant in the precambrian (however, finding an ancient species alive today does not in any way falsify evolution, as certain species can remain in some kind of "evolutionary stasis" like the coelecanth, although it too has changed somewhat over the ages).
Also, if one found human fossils for instance dated to far older periods, would cause a re-evaluation of human evolutionary theory...so for instance if someone found a human fossil in jurrasic strata, this would prove that at least humans did not evolve on earth the way we believe them to have done...
Dont hold out much hope for any such finds though...they most likely dont exists becasue they probably never happened.
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I agree with that. But it would probably be the most likely alternative
not at all..there are other possbilities, some kind of other method of evolution besides natural selection. Also there is the possiblity of aliens having created life on Earth (although this doesnt answet the ultimate of question of how life itself arose..)
Anyway, since creationism is not a natural explanation, science wouldnt consider it. As i said many times, you can belive what you want, but science can't--the supernatural is assumed to not exist from the very start, and that all phenomena have understandable causes and obey natural laws.
The supernatural explanation is not an explanation. Creationism is NOT a valid theory, becuase its a euphemism--it means we dont know something. Saying the gods made something happen is always the same as saying we dont why something happened.
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By the way, what happened to biogenesis?
I suppose its been settled, that it is likely possible..as the various experiments show.
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