Popper and complexity
Karl Popper
distinguished between falsifiable and non-falsifiable theories.
The first he regarded as scientific, and the last as non-scientific.
Psychoanalytic theory, for example is non-falsifiable, and cannot
be regarded as scientific. It might be some kind of an ideology.
Yet this criterion seems somewhat naïve. Take for instance a theory
of a multi-dimensional complex system. While in some dimensions
it may be falsified, in others not. Since it is so complex you may
never expose the falsifiable dimensions. Also Darwinism is non-falsifiable.
It should be regarded as a model of evolution which served its purpose
for some time, and now has to be augmented.
This blind belief in Neo-Darwinism is called by Houston Smith, Scientism
which must be differentiated from science. http://www.uu.edu/centers/science/b...eview.cfm?ID=37
Biology is dominated by Scientism with some characteristics of the
ideologies which dominated science in the USSR. They make you believe
that mutations drive evolution and even cancer, which to my understanding
is sheer nonsense. And all this happens in the strongest democracy
on earth, the USA.