falsifiable

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If ID isn't falsifiable, then the question of design in biology can't be adjudicated by science, and this renders Darwinism immune from evidence.

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  1. Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.

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  • (I'm not totally sure that this isn't scientifically falsifiable, but it's hard to see how it might be given the present state of play.) —  homunculus
  • If the theory is not falsifiable, then no observation could possibly be taken as "contradictory" to the theory; no potential piece of evidence could make it appear implausible. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • If something can be proved wrong, that means it is "falsifiable", it isn't really all that difficult to understand. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Is it only what is verifiable / falsifiable / observable / testable according to some artificially narrow idea of what —  California Literary Review
  • It may be that one way to know we're avoiding "God of the gaps" theology is that we are considering non-falsifiable statements. —  The Corner
 

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  1. from Old French (and F.) falsifiable, from falsifier, falsify.
 

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