falsifying evolution

[W.Wuster]

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, John Grehan wrote:

> I agree its a long way from a random pattern. I was looking at incongruence
> as total
> for those groups of characters that are incongrunet. In many cases there is a
> predominent grouping of characters, but there appear to be many cases where
> the situation never seems to get any better. However, I do not understand
> why a random pattern of characters would be necessarily be expected from
> separately created kinds if they were created according to a heirarchical
> design plan. I'm not saying that they were, just that if this were the view then
> grouping characters would not be a problem for creationists.

The original discussion was about falsifying evolution. A totally random
pattern would do so. Creationism is unfalsifiable, since any pattern
could be explained as some whim of the creator, as you have just shown.

Wolfgang Wuster

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