Sounds familiar, but if it’s sound science, no matter what the political agenda of the “skeptics”, science won’t be an effective weapon to knock it down, the “skeptics” end up resort to the non-science you refer to.

As soon as you’ve found your irrifutable scientific evidence against evolution you should push it for all it’s worth, at least you’ll find plenty of allies outside of the science community.

Of course, that could be a conspiracy of liars. In which case, you look at the character of the witnesses. If they all a bunch of gullible blubbering idiots they weighs in one direction. When they are doctors, lawyers, military officers and even credible business people, oh, and tax collectors (being despised doesn’t mean they aren’t credible) it goes the other.

Really? Because people have been digging up weird, anarchronistic fossils for hundreds of years. Yet somehow the scientific community always finds some means to explain them away.

Thought experiment: Let’s assume that a number of Haldane’s “Precambrian rabbit” skeletons were to be discovered. Here is what would actually happen:

1. The discoverers would be accused of fraud, fabrication, and felony. Their biographies would be publicly dissected for the slightest hint of scandal. They would be crucified in the scientific and lay press.

2. The scientific community would deny the fossils were rabbits. “The use of the term ‘Precambrian rabbit’ is unscientific. Since rabbits could not have existed in that era, we insist upon the use of the term ‘putative rabbit-like Precambrian life-form’ instead”

2. The scientific community would deny the fossils were Precambrian. “The stratum in which the fossils were discovered, although seemingly Precambrian, may in fact be those of a much later stratum easily confused with the Precambrian.”

3. Assuming that the “Precambrian rabbits” turned out to be genuinely rabbits and genuinely Precambrian, the scientific press would fall back upon dogma. “Anomalies in evolution to not disprove evolution as a whole. They are merely examples of the kind of wonderful mysteries of natural selection that Darwin set out to solve — mysteries that can only be solved by well-funded scientific research”.

Moral: Any out-of-sequence fossil remnant found, no matter how anachronistic, can be conveniently explained away by the ever-alert members of the “if-I-cain’t-poke-it-with-a-stick-it-ain’t-real” community. Because IF YOU CAIN’T POKE IT WITH A STICK, IT AIN’T REAL.

Perhaps more importantly, theories can also lead to predictions; perhaps the most recent and best-known example is the test of the Theory of Relativity (general form!) by measuring star positions near the Sun.

“God did it” fails as a theory on both counts. Which means that its utility, or lack of it, as an explanation of already-known data is completely irrelevant. As Pauli was fond of saying, it isn’t even wrong.

The question was purposefully posed – just like the contraceptioon question by George Stephanopoulis during a debate – in order to start the destruction of Rubio by the Democrats. To either separate him from his base, or marginalize him as a religious kook.

the law of identity,

A is A;

the law of contradiction,

A cannot be both A and not A;
– something cannot be true and false at the same time

and the law of the excluded middle,

A must be either A or not A.