Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"Not at all. The fact that we can't observe long-term evolution doesn't mean that we can't falsify it."
--Though, you do realize just how much it does infact take to discount Evolution?
Well, these days it would take a lot, given how much evidence for evolution has been found. But the concept itself is still falsifiable, and many theories of evolution have in fact been falsified.
"If the earth is very young, that would go a long way toward falsifying it, because evolution requires a long time scale."
--Not exactly brachinus, because say that we do find that something could have been layed down in 6000 years, this does not falsify a long time scale, you just no longer have that specific evidence to back it up.
Yes, if we discovered that evolution could happen in a few thousand years, that would negate the falsifying effect of a young earth. But nobody seriously thinks that the evolutionary changes we've observed "could have been layed down in 6,000 years."
"And if the fossil record contradicted the predictions made by evolutionary theory, that would also be a falsification."
--If someone were to find what most skeptics thing would have been found if the Flood created the fossil record, I would have to give the whole model a complete make-over.
Agreed.