... of inductive evidence can prove a universal statement but a single piece of counter-evidence can falsify it. He argued that since it is always easy to find confirmations and hind-sight explanations that will serve to save a theory, therefore a scientific theory should not be identified as one that ... is compatible with Darwinian explanation. This is like a tautology "all chairs are chairs", which is not testable; nor has any explanatory power. Following this logic, based on Popper's Principle of Falsification, Darwin's Theory of Evolution is not scientific because it was a tautology, a...

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