(March 17, 2021 at 1:37 pm)Apollo Wrote:(March 17, 2021 at 12:37 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Replace evidence-based with falsifiable. And though we might not agree, we'll at least be on the same page speaking the same language.
Not everything can neatly fit into falsiability criteria. Theories that are based on not agreed upon precise concepts like design cannot possibly have a falsiability. Because you can always say something follows a design while others may disagree it does. Falsifiable criteria are applicable to binary result based evidence (black vs white swans.)
In practice, such critters don't exist. See Thomas Kuhn's writing on scientific revolutions and also the Duhem-Quine Thesis.