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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please excuse the questions, but is evolution really science? I thought it was a theory. It's neither testable nor reproducible nor observable. Thought you needed those things to validate a scientific theory.[/quote]
A theory in this case is not the same as a theory in, say, detective work.  A scientific theory is based on the evidence of many scientists and their observations/experiments (for example, a similar scientific theory is the cell theory, which is not disputed at all).  The only reason it is called a theory is that there are no physical laws governing it (like gravity, motion, etc), and so it can happen in several different ways-it is fluid.  But theory does not mean it is a guess or open to changing.[/quote]
So you can do experiments on evolution?[/quote]

NP here. Yes, of course you can. See earlier PP's comment about experiments with fruit flies such as the ubiquitous [i]D. melanogaster[/i] and bacteria, etc. [/quote]
Did fruit flies or D. melangoster mutate into another species?[/quote]

From this, I really don't think you have the factual background to ask questions. How about you get a few textbooks about evolution, read them, maybe take a class or two?

I'm not sure if you're really interested or trolling, but if you're really interested, you're not going to understand the answers to this sort of question without very fundamental knowledge of how evolution, mutation, selection, adaption, etc work.[/quote]
From this, I'm not sure you can really answer the question, so you've referred me to a textbook. Changes within a community and changes to another species are entirely different things. I'm pretty sure fruit flies and bacteria have never been shown to have become different species in the way that evolution is said to have done. If you really understand, please try to enlighten me. I don't think asking a question on a forum like this is trolling.[/quote]

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