{"id":62860,"date":"2019-01-26T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=62860"},"modified":"2019-01-26T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T06:37:31","slug":"evolution-doesnt-require-experimental-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/evolution-doesnt-require-experimental-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution doesn&#8217;t require experimental verification?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I have been awestruck by the statement of one of\nthe \u201creputable\u201d regulars at TSZ that evolutionary theory doesn\u2019t need to be\nsubjected to any experimental testing or experimental verification\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you like that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He erroneously used the famous <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2011\/05\/long-last-gravity-probe-b-satellite-proves-einstein-right\">experiment<\/a><\/strong> that verified Einstein\u2019s prediction of gravity\u2019s ability to bend light. Here are the details:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/evolution-vs-id-the-clash-of-ideologies\/comment-page-2\/#comment-243417\">See? Experiments don\u2019t need to be run in the lab, and they can still be valid experiments. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this kind of statement is nothing new to me that Darwinists deny or ignore the need for the experimental verification of their evolutionary claims, on the other hand, they demand ID to be subjected to the scientific method processes for their claims to be verified&#8230;<strong>Hypocrisy at its best&#8230; <\/strong><br><br><strong>So, why can&#8217;t evolution be tested?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For those who are not well familiarized with the scientific method, it is probably a good idea to review some of the requirements of the scientific theory, or hypothesis, just to realize what an impossible task Darwinists would face even if they would like to verify their evolutionary speculations by experiments&#8230; While the definitions of the scientific method vary slightly depending on where you look, most scientific methods of a theory or a hypothesis need to meet the 3 main criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It needs to be observable (one kind of animal evolving into another: organs in transition, the third hand evolving to hold the cellphone while I&#8217;m driving)<\/li><li>It needs to make accurate predictions (If we tweak this gene this is going to begin to evolve, such as a change the body plans from 5 pound land walking animal to 50 ton whale) <\/li><li>It needs to be replicated by experiments (bacteria without a flagellum put under selective pressure to evolve something resembling a flagellum or a propeller&#8230; <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who has been following TSZ and my OPs knows that my calling on the supporters of evolution to help their belief system to meet the criteria of a scientific theory or scientific hypothesis is not new&#8230; The public admission by some that evolution doesn&#8217;t need to be subjected to experimental testing reached the new, unacceptable levels of ignorance by Darwinists, especially in the view of their arrogant insistence that ID would be subjected to experimental testing to be proven as a scientific theory or hypothesis&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darwinists either don&#8217;t know, or choose not to know, but if they subjected evolution to experimental testing they could prove their theory or hypothesis right and, at the same time, ID wrong&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So, why not do it?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess the only explanation for the phenomenon is that Darwinists have not much faith in their own beliefs&#8230; It is just used as a facade to make their s&#8221;intelligence&#8221; look less ludicrous&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I have been awestruck by the statement of one of the \u201creputable\u201d regulars at TSZ that evolutionary theory doesn\u2019t need to be subjected to any experimental testing or experimental verification\u2026 How do you like that? He erroneously used the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/evolution-doesnt-require-experimental-verification\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}