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To: Dimensio
From a quick review of the essay I linked:
In Popper's view, any hypothesis that does not make testable predictions is simply not science. Such a hypothesis may be useful or valuable, but it cannot be said to be science.

78 posted on 12/13/2004 1:32:53 PM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry
And from Wikipedia:

"Any theory not falsifiable is said to be unscientific, unverifiable, pure ideology, nonsense or meaningless."
82 posted on 12/13/2004 1:36:14 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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