Quote:That's not the same as non-scientific.
It is if you include falsifiability in your definition of science.
Quote:That's the old Popper gamut again. Popper had a great theory with one very slight problem: It didn't actually take account of how science works in practice.
It is not supposed to say anything about how it works in practice. Kuhn had a lot to say about that side of things, but it does not actually contradict falsifiability as part of science.
Quote:If we believed Popper, none of the observational sciences would be scientific.
Including observation as a requirement for science does not rule out observation. However, if it ends at observation, you might as well include stamp collecting.
Quote:That is smacking rubbish. Find a fossil out of its geologic time slot, evolution disproved.
That is still not falsifiable. Falsifiable means that you cannot perform a scientific experiment that would disprove the theory if it were incorrect. If you find a fossil out of the geological time slot it would not actually disprove evolution. You would just make another slot for it.