RE: Falsifiability is a stupid criterion
July 24, 2012 at 11:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2012 at 11:10 am by Anomalocaris.)
Actually, falsifiability isn't the only deductive criterion available to science, there is also verifiability. Were verifiability not also an deducive criterion acceptable to science when more stringent falsifiability criterion was not possible to be applied, there would have been essentially no science before early 20th century, and vital parts integral to many fields in modern science, like astronomy, sociology, etc, still won't be considered science.
The point is falsifiability is a more stringent standard then verifiability, and the stringency impose requirements that is often difficult to meet when dealing with complex systems that is difficult to control.
However, nothing vital to christainity could even pretend to meeting the most slack possible application of verifiability, much less falsifiability.
The point is falsifiability is a more stringent standard then verifiability, and the stringency impose requirements that is often difficult to meet when dealing with complex systems that is difficult to control.
However, nothing vital to christainity could even pretend to meeting the most slack possible application of verifiability, much less falsifiability.
