In "his general talk on the evidence for evolution," Jerry Coyne says he gives "a list of seven observations that, if repeated and confirmed, would disprove parts of the theory of evolution." This would show "that it is a scientific theory in the Popperian sense of being falsifiable."
I think we should congratulate Coyne for accepting a Popperian test for judging the scientific status of evolutionary theory. It is notoriously easy to circumvent the falsification test and for this reason it is...
Published on July 11, 2012 16:49