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Not just in Kansas, Anymore....

Curtis Clark jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU
Sun Aug 5 14:27:22 CDT 2001


At 11:26 AM 8/5/01, John R. Grehan wrote:
>Another view I would suggest is that evolution, as a research program, is
>not falsifiable.

It seems like that would be true of any research program. "By their works
you shall know them," but it's difficult to see how one would falsify
methodology. Even the most sh*t-awful protocol can result in useful
information, and an impeccable method applied to the wrong question can
result in nothing.


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