As a scientist, he confesses dismay at the naive popular faith in science, for example,
D. Ignoring Falsification of Key Predictions
Because so many conclusions in modern science depend upon inductive inferences to conclusions that cannot be proved experimentally, falsification has an important role. It tells us if we are on the wrong track. It is very bad science that focuses only on the positive support for a theory while ignoring experimental and observational evidence that falsifies it.
An essential prediction of the Darwinian theory of common descent, for example, is that functional genetic information increases through a process of mutations, insertions, and deletions. Experimental science, however, consistently falsifies this prediction. In reality, the number of harmful mutations is greater than the number of beneficial mutations, with the net result that the genomes of life are slowly degrading. We see this, for example, in bacteria, in the fruit fly, and in human beings. In this case, scientism’s philosophical commitment to common descent sets aside actual experimental results that contradict that belief because, under scientism, the foregone conclusion is required to be true, even if experimental science appears to falsify a key prediction. Scientism’s belief in Darwinian common descent by blind and mindless processes is, as some might say, “too big to fail.” Kirk Durston, “Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong?” at Evolution News and Science Today:
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See also: Kirk Durston: In Defence Of Experimental Science
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Kirk Durston: Backing Up The Particle Physicist Who Says There Is “Baked In” Bias In Science