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Evolutionary science versus falsifiability
Arndts, RT. 1985.  NCC83 :11-18. CELD ID 19254

Abstract
After many years of denial, the leaders of the anti-creation movement are beginning to admit that the evolutionary version of history is not falsifiable. Thus they are conceding that evolution is not scientific. For decades, creationists have been asserting that neither of the two versions of history (evolution and creation) can be studied by scientific methodology. In general, evolutionists have declared that the creation account cannot be falsified, and thus the creation account of history is not science. Naturalists argue that creation should not be considered for the science classrooms in public schools, while claiming that evolution is proper science. Using 20/20 hindsight, I must admit that most evolutionists did not directly claim that evolution was falsifiable; they simply stated that creation could not be falsified, and let the reader assume that evolution was a testable concept. They created the illusion that they were promoting real science. Before documenting the fact that naturalists are now admitting that the evolutionary account of origins cannot be known by scientific means, we must first review scientific methodology.