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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Can evolution or the origin of the universe be falsified?
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Some say there are no stupid questions, but this is a stupid question. That's like asking "can gravity be falsified, or can electromagnetism be falsified".
Did you mean to ask "can the theory of evolution" or "the theory of the origin of the universe" be falsified?
This is science we're discussing here, how you phrase things is important you know.
To answer your questions, yes, and there is none.
Yes the theory of evolution can be falsified.. and pars of it have been many times over in fact; that's why the theory of evolution that we have today is significantly different than the theory that Darwin first proposed.. science being all sciency and doing ongoing research and all that.
(As an aside if you feel confident enough in your knowledge about evolution to argue against it, you should be able to tell us the kinds of things that if we observed would falsify evolution. I'll give you one though, if a cat gave birth to a dog, that would falsify evolution.)
As far as I know there's no theory of the origin of the universe. There's speculation, ideas, and concepts, but no real scientific theory. Big Bang theory isn't a theory about the origin of the universe, it's a theory of the early history of the universe.