Let's be clear on what natural selection is. From the gentleman that first coined the term:
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If during the long course of ages and under varying conditions of life, organic beings vary at all in the several parts of their organisation, and I think this cannot be disputed; if there be, owing to the high geometrical powers of increase of each species, at some age, season, or year, a severe struggle for life, and this certainly cannot be disputed; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of existence, causing an infinite diversity in structure, constitution, and habits, to be advantageous to them, I think it would be a most extraordinary fact if no variation ever had occurred useful to each being's own welfare, in the same way as so many variations have occurred useful to man. But if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.
Unless you dispute any the conditions above have ever occurred - it is a logical necessity that you accept that natural selection has occurred.
What if, as I believe, evolution is the continuous creation by a supernatural being, who created and continues to creathe and evolve the natural world?
If that being was going out of its way to be deceptive then we may never be able to verify or falsify this statement. It is equally profound or interesting to consider the possibility we are trapped in The Matrix
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In any other case - it is likely we'd have found some evidence that didn't fit with the narrow range of possibilities that evolutionary principles predict.
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