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Posted by David Fairthorne on Wed Dec 1 20:21:21 2010, in response to Re: Atheist Billboard At Lincoln Tunnel Approach, posted by JayMan on Wed Dec 1 15:30:32 2010. On second thoughts, I am not sure if you are right that only in logic and mathematics can you prove anything (affirmative or negative).It seems to me that some things in science can be, and in fact have been, disproved. Didn't the Michelson Morley experiment disprove the existence of the luminiferous ether? And didn't Einstein prove that Newton was wrong to the extent that classical mechanics failed to predict accurately the orbit of Mercury? There are many examples in science where theories (hypotheses) have been falsified. According to Karl Popper, a scientific theory must have a means of being falsified; otherwise it doesn't qualify as scientific. I note in the paper by Max Tegmark that he uses this same criterion: "The lesson is that the multiverse theory can be tested and falsified even though we cannot see the other universes." |
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