Evolution can be proved theoretically, just like math. It's

In addition, it can also be proven theoretically that evolution would happen to ANY kind of living system. So it doesn't matter if aliens are made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. They can be made of metal and live in 800 K and still experience evolution. No organism in any kind of environment can escape evolution.

And I needed zero (0) empirical evidence to ascertain the truthhood of that theorem.

>>9129670
>How does that insight make you feel?
Really good because that proves biology is a subset of math and therefore I am smarter than anyone that is not a mathematician.

Feels good man.

evolution isn't just the tautology that what survives survives
it's the theory that selection and mutation can explain the genesis of all living organisms from a common ancestor over millions of years. if what survives survives, why isn't there just a single life form? why is there such differentiation among creatures? or why so little? where did this and that organ come from and why?
the "proof" of the theory is its ability to explain all of these phenomena supported by evidence.
what survives survives, but how do we know all life wasn't placed here in pre-differentiated forms by a martian zookeeper? because of the positive claims supported by contingent evidence that the theory makes beyond simply what survives survives.
there. I just improved your thinking in one short post. you're welcome.

>>9129679
It's pretty simple really. If no system in the universe has freedom of choice, there must be an universal choice-maker, namely mathematics, and all that exists has to obey it.

For example. Until economists can prove humans have freedom of choice, economy is just mathematics. Until chemists can prove humans have freedom of choice, love and fear are just an subset of an electromagnetic field trying to find the lowest potential.

>>9129688
It's right in the title of Darwin's book: On the Origin of Species.

>>9129670
>>9129674
Formal proofs of evolution do require some axioms. While they may be rather natural, you do need to confirm them by empirical observations to validate your model.

Also, the formal proofs that I know of are very vague and do not compose the theory of evolution alone. A theory has to explain natural phenomena with some accuracy, and as it stands the theory of evolution is rather poor at predicting the evolution of species.