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Karl Popper on Evolution as a Metaphysical Research Program

„Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.“

Karl PopperKarl Popper questions the scientific testability of evolution in this quote and describes it as a metaphysical research program.
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Karl Popper was an Austrian-British philosopher and the founder of critical rationalism.

The quote documents Popper’s epistemological critique of the scientific testability of evolutionary claims.


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Karl Popper quote about evolution as a metaphysical research program

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher. Through his work in the philosophy of knowledge and science, as well as in social, historical, and political philosophy, he shaped critical rationalism. He also served as a professor of logic and scientific methods.

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