Godless episode 37: Falsifiability
Episode 37: October 21, 2009
Rob & Dave discuss the notion of falsifiability, and propose a challenge to listeners.
- Today's topics and links:
- Opening music: (Are We Losing) Faith, by Silence Is Sexy
- AC failure and minor audio glitches. FML.
- We love constructive criticism
- Torsten sends us news of a bible-burning in North Carolina
- Falsifiability: a key component of scientific inquiry
- Testing claims
- The counter-intuitivity of falsifiability: the stronger a hypothesis, the easier it is to falsify
- Rabbits in the PreCambrian
- The "Fred Flintstone" hoax
- The Godless falsifiability challenge
- Weak positions require strong faith
- Actively seeking falsification
- Galileo's cannonball
- Having it both ways
- Dave's childhood story of adapting knowledge to new information
- Congratulations to Brighton, the most godless city in Britain

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