Evolution
Guided inquiry, myth 2
Your team will deal with Statement 2: “Evolution is unscientific because it is not testable or falsifiable. It makes claims about events that were not observed and can never be re-created.”
Read the text carefully. Identify and document the arguments put forward by the authors to support their point of view.
Questions: Is Evolution testable? Is it falsifiable? Does all science depend on controlled laboratory experiments to be considered true science?
In order to check the above question, the following bibliographic sources are suggested:
- Misconceptions about evolution
- Warming to Evolution
- Toxic river means rapid evolution for one fish species
- Evolution under our noses
- Study the following source: Artificial selection in the lab
- “Play” with the following virtual lab: Evolution in the lab
- Run the following simulation: The evolutionary informatics lab
Please use this tool to assess the reliability of the sources used. Write a summary of your findings in the table.
