[bvw]

Read those sentenses again, and again and again. Maybe you guys need to take some vitamin pills or some cognition enhanced diet, meditation, training .... something.

Popper's is very specific about what exactly he means when he says he changed his mind, and what he is recanting. He adds only this: "How the theory of natural selection could be untestable and yet of great scientific interest ... My solution was that the doctrine [note that word well!] of natural selection is a most successful metaphysical research programme."

That is ... he is pulling the wool over your eyes, you confounded, self-made idiots, deluded by Darwinsism.

Just like Galileo under his breath ...

[grey_whiskers]

I read those sentences, bvw. But you know, those aren't the only sentences he wrote: and apparently those sentences have been superseded by some of his later writing.

For another analogy, the saying "scripture interprets scripture" might be applicable here: wouldn't one want to look at the totality of an author for illumination of a controversial passage? (Some Roman Catholics might not agree with that principle, so your mileage may vary...)