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Emil Menzel
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posted February 09, 2007 09:34 PM

I am really impressed with those BBC radio programs. I wish we had
something comparable in the USA -- but on the other hand, thanks
to the Web, we do have them. (Now when I was a child... The first
time I heard a radio it was a short wave broadcast of Adolf Hitler,
via BBC.)

About 30 years ago I really got taken with Karl Popper. He is surely
one of the most lucid of philosophers, and still very influential
despite having fallen in popularity several notches in recent years.
His view of "science" was widely invoked to attack creationists; i.e.,
according to him, if you cannot falsify an hypothesis it is not
scientific... More to my liking, he characterized science as an
"endless quest" as opposed to some supposedly impeccable and
unchangable Truth.

Anyway, he is certainly relevant to disussions of belief vs proof.
And speaking of "proof" -- I looked up that term in my Encylopedia
Brittanica, & about all I got was discussions about the field of
Law. Ask Google & you will get a lot more, but still I suspect
relatively little about the empirical sciences. Maybe statistics
is a sort of substitute.

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