falsifying evolution

[Gary Rosenberg]

I don't think the battle is to be joined on whether evolution is
falsifiable. Evolution can be directly observed in the change of gene
frequencies in populations over time. Creationists who accept
microevolution presumably do so because it is an observable fact. It's
pretty hard to deny that some bacterial strains have developed resistance
to antibiotics or that some insects populations have developed resistance
to herbicides. Creationists deny that evolution leads to speciation.
Therefore the evidence we need to produce is not evidence of evolution, but
evidence of speciation. We must emphasize the few known examples where
speciation occurs extremely rapidly, or even "instantly" in the case of
speciation by polyploidy in plants.

Gary

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