“Dances with Popper”: An Examination of Dembski's Claims on Testability
Journal Title: Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy - Year 2011, Vol 8, Issue 0
Abstract
Referring to the controversy over scientific status of Darwinian theory of evolution and intelligent design theory, author reviews the key notions in the philosophy of Karl Popper, such as falsifiability, testability or refutability of a theory. His aim is to check the accuracy of the use of these notion in the argumentation of William Dembski who is a proponent of intelligent design theory. Dembski invokes Popper in his argumentation regarding refutability of this theory, but author shows that Dembski distorts Popperian concept of falsifiability. He indicates also that Dembski’s objection that Darwinism is unrefutable is mistaken and proofs that even in the light of Dembski’s own criterions the theory of intelligent design turns out to be unfalsifiable.
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Wesley Elsberry
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