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Is the theory of evolution falsifiable?

Asked by LostInParadise (31914points) February 1st, 2017

The philosopher of science, Karl Popper, said that for a study to be considered as part of science, its hypotheses have to be subject to experiments which can test the hypotheses and which may give negative results.

I am having an argument with someone who claims that the theory of evolution does not satisfy Popper’s criterion. I may be wrong on this, but I believe that the discovery of DNA and the tree of life derived from it agreed almost completely with the prior tree of life constructed using just fossil and structural evidence. If this is true then the agreement between the two can be considered a pretty good test of the theory of evolution. Am I right? If not, is there some other test that evolution can be subject to?

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