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January 18, 2017
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Jay Richards: Falsifiability in Science
Jay Richards
January 18, 2017
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On this episode of ID the Future , Logan Gage and Jay Richards discuss Popper’s falsification test for science. Today, the demarcation for science is the idea is that a theory should be empirically testable. Nonetheless, many ID proponents use the harder criterion of falsifiability.
Photo by Ashlee Best, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Senior Fellow at Discovery, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage FoundationJay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the Executive Editor of The Stream . Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage ; Money, Greed, and God , winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; and Eat, Fast, Feast . His most recent book, with Douglas Axe and William Briggs, is The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe .