Jay McHue:
Please formulate a repeatable test for evolution to prove that it's science. Thank you.
Richard Forrest:
Take a population of organisms and examine their genetic makeup.
Subject them to environmental stress over many generations.
Examine the genetic makeup of the resultant populations.
If there is a change, evolution by natural selection has occurred. That is using the term in the sense for which it was coined by the people who coined it.
It's been done over and over again. There is a huge body of scientific literature on the subject,
No matter how much you may wish it otherwise, evolution is a phenomenon of nature we can observe in action in the natural world and replicate in the laboratory. If that contradicts your religious dogma, perhaps you should examine the epistemological basis of your beliefs.
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