Re: What's the Science of Dinosaurs?

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> As an exemplar, is cladistics science?
> The short answer is No.
> The long answer is also No.

Strange. Cladistics produces testable hypotheses based on observations of
facts.

> Not if science is about approaching and eventually reaching a
> single, apprehendable truth.

Why?

> If it can't, then science is a
> social activity, shared by those who've leapt to belief.

If it can't reach that truth? Probably it can, but we can't show something
is true, if we're really picky. That's why Popper talks about
falsifiability, not verifiability.

> Let the festivities continue!
> And the best of the joys of the season to all!

Same :-)