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Falsifiability

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 30, 2021
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Design inference, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Abduction: A thinking skill you can do but computers can’t

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Design inference, Intelligent Design
Fahsing point outs that criminal investigations are generally abductive rather than deductive. “Try to eliminate as many explanations or lines of inquiry as you can. Just like in science, theories can be truly tested only through falsification.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 9, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Laszlo Bencze on the claim that falsifiability in science is a “myth”

Denyse O'Leary
September 9, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Bencze: Multiverse theory has no falsifiers. It excludes nothing. No potential fact of existence can falsify it. By contrast Relativity has plenty of falsifiers: Something exceeding the speed of light,… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 29, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Falsifiability is overrated, some cosmologists say

Denyse O'Leary
April 29, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
The article doesn’t explain what the “fine-tuning problem” means. It means that the universe shows evidence of design. No one has been able to explain that away. However, if basic thinking in science is jerked around enough, maybe ideas that don’t work can be offered social promotions and sit right alongside demonstrated ones. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 27, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Sabine Hossenfelder on the flight from falsifiability

Denyse O'Leary
April 27, 2019
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Hossenfelder is right to be concerned. Some cosmologists would like to dump falsifiability as a criterion. If they could, they would remove an obstacle to demanding public belief in ideas like the multiverse, ideas that cannot be falsified because there is no evidence for them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 15, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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A biophysicist looks at the limits of what science can tell us

Denyse O'Leary
April 15, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
Kirk Durston: 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. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 31, 2019
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Raining carrots: Falsifiability does not, by itself, make for good science

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2019
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
In short, she is saying, the universe wasn’t supposed to be like this and that’s the basis for the current crisis in cosmology. One can always invent “falsifiable” theories but their falsifiability is not in itself a virtue; it is simply the basis for them being theories in science at all. The question of whether they should be pursued or funded is a quite different one. Read More ›
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Joshua Gidney
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March 26, 2017
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Darwinism, Evolution, Philosophy
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Design Disquisitions: Quote of the Month-Cornelius Hunter on the Unfalsifiability of Evolution

Joshua Gidney
March 26, 2017
Darwinism, Evolution, Philosophy

This month’s quote is by Cornelius Hunter, followed by a few brief thoughts on falsifiability in science. Let me know what you think: Quote of the Month: Cornelius Hunter on the Unfalsifiability of Evolution