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**intifatry** · 09-22-2012, 06:06 AM

And then there was Karl Popper.

He said that the hallmark of scientific theories is that these are falsifiable. You can prove them wrong by empirical evidence. A theory that is not amenable to falsification is not a scientific theory. Thus he gave a method for demarcation of scientific and non-scientific theories. This is the Popperian wisdom.

Cute.

He also said God doesnt exist because the theory of God is non-falsifiable.
Having said that the fact we have come to know about dark matter and dark energy itself tells us that our arrogance on finding the laws of nature was not well founded. Initially when dark matter was predicted that was a shock itself. Dark matter hasn't been detected yet.

Personally I think it's one case that points out a flaw in the scientific method. The assumption is that all that exists can be detected empirically and that all that exists is reducable to number, so, they have postulated the existence of dark matter using mathematical models, but they can't find it. I doubt they ever will.

Their whole purpose in doing this is to account for everything that exists from a materialistic perspective.

09-22-2012, 06:06 AM	#38
intifatry Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	And then there was Karl Popper. He said that the hallmark of scientific theories is that these are falsifiable. You can prove them wrong by empirical evidence. A theory that is not amenable to falsification is not a scientific theory. Thus he gave a method for demarcation of scientific and non-scientific theories. This is the Popperian wisdom. Cute. He also said God doesnt exist because the theory of God is non-falsifiable. Having said that the fact we have come to know about dark matter and dark energy itself tells us that our arrogance on finding the laws of nature was not well founded. Initially when dark matter was predicted that was a shock itself. Dark matter hasn't been detected yet. Personally I think it's one case that points out a flaw in the scientific method. The assumption is that all that exists can be detected empirically and that all that exists is reducable to number, so, they have postulated the existence of dark matter using mathematical models, but they can't find it. I doubt they ever will. Their whole purpose in doing this is to account for everything that exists from a materialistic perspective.
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