(December 9, 2022 at 11:39 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(December 9, 2022 at 10:51 pm)Jehanne Wrote: LinuxGal, you disappoint me!
The FLRW model made a testable, falsifiable prediction, namely, the existence of the CMB. It is much more than a "just so" story about how the Universe began.
Yes, on another thread we've disagreed about how solid a model explaining evidence can be. I'm not saying there's anything to Popperism (heck, the daily horoscope is falsifiable, that doesn't make it scientific) but we've got data, and we've got models that explain the data, and our models approach the way things are as a limit. They never get all the way there.
Some proposed scientific models are simply wrong:
https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/iGen3_03-01.html
This is what makes scientific analysis different from other modes of human thought. In the area of cosmology, few scholars hold to the Steady State hypothesis; ditto for the multiregional theory of human evolution.
