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To: Katelew who wrote (101730)	1/24/2009 8:04:25 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 543221

Then read the last sentence of my last post. Here it is in slightly more technical terms Evolution can be falsified by the presence of single authentic angel fossil in pre-Devonian sediments. Wiki has a great article on Falsifiability. I will gladly help you understand what falsifiability means. It isn't a difficult concept and is about what is done and not done in science. We don't disprove God. God could be at play but He appears to prefer evolution over scriptural details. en.wikipedia.org The criterion of demarcation Popper uses falsification as a criterion of demarcation to draw a sharp line between those theories that are scientific and those that are unscientific. It is useful to know if a statement or theory is falsifiable, if for no other reason than that it provides us with an understanding of the ways in which one might assess the theory. One might at the least be saved from attempting to falsify a non-falsifiable theory, or come to see an unfalsifiable theory as unsupportable. Popper claimed that, if a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific; if it is not falsifiable, then it is not open to falsification. The Popperian criterion excludes from the domain of science not unfalsifiable statements but only whole theories that contain no falsifiable statements; thus it leaves us with the Duhemian problem of what constitutes a 'whole theory' as well as the problem of what makes a statement 'meaningful'. Popper's own falsificationism, thus, is not only an alternative to verificationism, it is also an acknowledgement of the conceptual distinction that previous theories had ignored.

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