| appolose said: That has little to do with evolutionary history; it is proposed, for example, that some dinosaurs evolved into birds in the distant past. This proposition is unobserable, unverifiable, and cannot be falsified. Therefore, given the definition of science, it cannot be scientific. |
Birds evolving from dinosaurs can be falsified and verifiable. Keep in mind that the term dinosaur covers everything from T-Rex to tiny lizards running around the forest, from pterodactyls in the sky to giant dinosaurs swimming in the ocean. There were even dinosaurs with feathers that looked like birds, so there isnt much of a stretch here.
Of course, it cant be observed and verified first hand, but it can be observed in the fossil record, which is precisely what paleotologists have been doing. Besides, we assume many things to be true that we cannot obvserve first hand, such as atomic fusion in the sun or Earth's magentic core.
