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ebear's avatar

https://www.simplypsychology.org/karl-popper.html

"Karl Popper believed that scientific knowledge is provisional – the best we can do at the moment. Popper is known for his attempt to refute the classical positivist account of the scientific method by replacing induction with the falsification principle. The Falsification Principle, proposed by Karl Popper, is a way of demarcating science from non-science. It suggests that for a theory to be considered scientific, it must be able to be tested and conceivably proven false. For example, the hypothesis that “all swans are white” can be falsified by observing a black swan. For Popper, science should attempt to disprove a theory rather than attempt to continually support theoretical hypotheses."

So how does one test/falsify a myth?

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Michael Brownstein's avatar

Right on. Except that the Bible is not "true," it's by and large a compendium of patriarchal falsities and marching orders. The Bible is post-alphabet male-dominated propaganda. It is monotheistic indoctrination. Time to read The Alphabet vs. the Goddess by Leonard Shlain. Much of our suffering, cruelty and blindness come from post-alphabet choosing of sides -- I'm holding my Holy Book and you're holding a different one -- "yours" -- and we use them to beat each other into the ground. Yes, the Bible contains wisdom and beauty but these qualities are prisoners in a control trip scenario. Wisdom and beauty are the gorgeous stallions forever harnessed to the drivers of these infernal wagons. Return to the spirits of nature, return to the Goddess, or continue to lay waste to one another in the most grotesque ways as we have for thousands of years -- only now with up to date weapons that make the cudgels of the past look like toys.

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