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[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]

It is testable and reproducible -- scientists have done many studies or smaller organism, such as bacteria and fruit flies, that show how mutations at the individual level over time lead to larger changes at the community level.

It is also observable, through the fossil record.[/quote]
Do those bacteria and fruit fly studies show a mutation to a new species, or just a change in the community? I'm sure traits within a community change, but that's not the same thing as a species change. I'm not sure how fossils can show a change from one species to another. I'd be happy to be enlightened.[/quote]

Yes, there are studies that show how mutations can lead to the creations of new "species" ie sets of organisms that can mate with each other, but not with their original ancestors.

Fossils show that different organisms existed on earth over time and comparative genomics shows unequivocally that many species on earth (ie as many as we have sequenced the genomes of or important parts of) are consistent with having come from a common ancestor and diversified through a process of slow mutation over time.

This data all shows that evolution is the single most consistent explanation for the life we observe today of all other scientific theories.  That said, no theory can ever rule out the involvement of a supernatural diety or agent.  IE we cannot ever rule out a creationist story that happened before we were all born, but we also cannot use science to discount theories that God smote Malaysian Airlines flight 320, or that God caused airplanes to fly into the World Trade center rather than the terrorists most people believe to be responsible for this action.
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