Matthew Miller wrote:

>> Evolution falls outside Popper's boundaries and can not be handled by 
>> Science as he knows it.
> 
> I don't believe that you understand evolution too well. Evolution (and
> that word covers a lot of ground) does provide models, makes
> predictions, and can be tested. Why do think it doesn't do these things?
> Do you think geology is a religion as well? 

In Popper's sense (to which I don't subscribe), "science" requires a theory
that makes reasonably precise predictions so that directed observations can
be made that could falsify the theory. 

Evolution with a capital E is not a theory that makes predictions, it is an
interpretation of history, a claim to a certain reality. It doesn't say
that life on this planet could have originated through evolution (with a
lower case e), but it claims that it has. It is not a theory that makes
predictions precise enough to be tested.

Gerhard
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