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Ep 150: ”A Journey There & Back Again” -Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can & Can’t” Ch 6 Readings & Discussion.

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Evolution by Natural Selection Is Not Refutation of Evolution by Natural Selection

If you did indeed find rabbits in the pre cambrian, that's not a refutation of evolution by natural selection. It could just mean that rapids are revolved more rapidly in that particular place than they did anywhere else. So then we've got a problem, don't we? If evolution by natral selection is the deepest theory of biology, in what sense is it truly a scientific theory? Is there any way of doing an experiment which would refute it? And this is why papa said, well, it's better to consider that as the research programme. We can think about all the different ways in which we can have theories of biology and theories of genetics - related to

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