What I notice is the total avoidance of whether Popper’s ‘musings’ were right or wrong. Shouldn’t that be the true focus of a ‘scientist’?
Rather than worrying about whether these particular Sneetches have ‘stars on thars’? Perhaps it really is true that “you can’t teach a Sneetch”.
I didn't do that because I have observed many times that quotes are often taken out of context where using them to support the literal creationist view is concerned. Since I didn't want to spend the time tracking down the writings of Popper to see what he really said, in context, I did not address the validity of the quotes as presented here.
It is a common gambit of advocates of literal creationism to cherry-pick quotes that supposedly support their position, and then present the quotes as if they come from someone who is so important to science that every scientist must be intimately familiar with every aspect of their work. Until this thread, I had never heard of Popper. He isn't discussed in the history that we learn in freshman level science classes.