Desrtopa comments on The Wonder of Evolution - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ghazzali 26 April 2012 06:57:55PM 3 points [-]

If all science must be in theory falsifiable, and evolution is good science, can you give me some parameters or predictions that if they were found to be true would hurt the theory of evolution?

What would scientists need to find in the future that would seriously do damage to the theory?

Comment author: Desrtopa 26 April 2012 07:08:22PM *  12 points [-]

The standard snappy answer to this one is "fossil rabbits in the precambrian".

More generally, if we found fossils of organisms with complex adaptations which reliably dated to a time before those adaptations could plausibly have occurred (because the necessary precursors didn't exist,) then that would be a strong indication that our understanding of the development of species is wrong.