[THOUGHT EXPERIMENT] One day, evolution is proven false: then what happens?

[siweLSC]

This reads as though the natural laws are out of synch but only on things that are inconvenient for a belief in a literal bible? I can only imagine the sort of belief that is needed. It would seem, as long as one gets to keep all the "good stuff" that science has given us, and discard all that inconvenient stuff, that doesn't seem to be a very sound position to hold.

Archeology and Paleontology are not isolated fields. If one discards these two fields, ALL scientific fields crumble because they are inter-linked. Evolution is proven by genetics. Evolution is proven by medicine, geology, physics... If one discards these two, they all must go.

Archeology and paleontology would certainly not be discarded, but the facts would be interpreted in a different way.
You say that evolution is proved by these different fields, but here we are talking about a situation in which evolution is disproven, which means it would be disproven by the said fields wouldn't it?

As long as the believer can "pick and choose" the sort of science that doesn't contradict their version of the god in the scripture, the science is acceptable. Conveniently, this tactic is also used in their process of selecting the sort of god they want to believe in; it's no surprise that it's done with their "science." Does anyone really like the wrathful, violent, slave-owning supporter and women hater that's in the Hebrew Scriptures? It is often used to bash some minority group. "In the bible, it says..."

This really is a topic for a different thread, but just briefly, there are several reasons why (most) christians aren't pro slavery mysoginists. If you live in a society where you can do whatever you like to your slaves, and then God comes along and put in place restrictions and protocols to ensure slaves are treated half decently, that doesn't mean God actually supports slavery. The bible does need to be understood in its historical context.
God is wrathful, violent? Read what the Israelites did - you can't say they weren't asking for it.

 

[painted wolf]

Archeology and paleontology would certainly not be discarded, but the facts would be interpreted in a different way.
You say that evolution is proved by these different fields, but here we are talking about a situation in which evolution is disproven, which means it would be disproven by the said fields wouldn't it?

Actually paleontology would have huge problems...

what to do about critters like microraptor, hyracodon, acanthostega, miacetus and so on.
what to do about stratography
what to do about hominids
what to do about the great extinctions like the K/T and the P/T events.

and so on just to name a few.

wa:do

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Find another theory

 

[Kerr]

If evolution were falsified, then it would still be used as the most workable solution to the problem of biological diversity until something that better fit the facts came along. That's been the case with other theories. For instance, Newtonian physics was held onto despite being known to have problems until relativity came along.

This sounds like the most likely scenario to me. At least from science. There would probably be some people who would use that as an excuse to discredit science. Or use it as an argument to promote their own ideas (the "if evolution is wrong it must mean we are right" argument).