29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent
Douglas L. Theobald (TalkOrigins Archive)
About this work
Theobald's essay is unusual and admirable in one respect: every line of evidence is stated as a prediction with an explicit "potential falsification". That makes it well suited to a rubric built on the scientific method. Whether a prediction that common descent shares with other explanations counts in its favour is the question the reasoning check calls affirming the consequent.
- Author
- Douglas L. Theobald (TalkOrigins Archive)
- Published
- 1999–2012
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- College
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- Pillars
- Common Descent, The Fossil Record, Molecular Evidence
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