[RobbyS]

I think it pretty clear that we have only an inkling of what the whole universe is like. Relatively speaking, not that much more than what Ptolemy did. The pure positivism that Popper delineated gives us not much to deal with. As for falsifrication, the problem with evolution theory is that beginning with Darwin himself, it has been adopted as a kind of “theory of Everything.” It certainly can’t handle the basic question: how does intelligence look at itself?

[Abin Sur]

I think it pretty clear that we have only an inkling of what the whole universe is like. Relatively speaking, not that much more than what Ptolemy did.

Compare our current knowledge of the nature of (for example) the Solar System to that of Ptolemy's. Are you seriously arguing that we only know a bit more than he did about this subject?

As for falsifrication, the problem with evolution theory is that beginning with Darwin himself, it has been adopted as a kind of “theory of Everything.” It certainly can’t handle the basic question: how does intelligence look at itself?

Since that question has nothing to do with the TOE, why should it?