We disagree about basically everything then. It was scientists who held conferences last century to prove that the white race was better than the others, who insisted in the 19th century that drinking lead was healthy and any number of other things. They were just as insistent that they alone knew the truth about the world then as they are now.
If you actually read Popper he explicitly stated that without a falsification HDM approach, science degrades into pathological science where you try to prove your own hypothesis by filtering evidence so it supports the theory while ignoring the evidence that doesn`t support it. To me this makes someone like Dawkins is a real zealot because he exclusively presents evidence in favor of his own theory while claiming it as fact, even though a theory is an explanation of facts and not fact itself, without presenting criteria for falsifying the theory. This doesn`t even mean I disagree with him, but that as long as he engages in pathological, inductive science he`s undermining himself and the science of biology.
As for biologists as a whole they have recently spent 20 years or so insisting that 97% of genes are "junk DNA" instead of admitting that they have no idea what it`s for. They have just now changed their minds on this issue and are therefore saying the complete opposite of what they said last year. But we were supposed to believe them without proper scientific exposition last year and we`re supposed to trust them without proper scientific exposition now. The scientific principles soft sciences would be well advised to use were developed in the 19th century, but instead of sticking to them modern biologists have tried to engage in induction, which works fine in physics and mathematics because the principles are constant there, but not in interpretative sciences like biology.
As a result of biologists abandoning their scientific method in order to postulate undebatable truth, there really are no proper falsification criteria incorporated into the theory of evolution, and there needs to be. And if high school isn`t the place to learn about this very important scientific principle, when should it be done? Lots of people quit school for good after high school.
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