Popper, Karl (1902-94) Austrian philosopher of science - particularly important for his understanding of science as progressing by the falsification of hypotheses. Related Topics: Philosophy Contributed by:

be falsified in the sense of Karl Popper , by performing repeatable experiments whose outcomes are inconsistent with the postulate [that evolution has occurred] - nor can most theories of geology and of cosmology .’ Evolutionary biology ,

this reduction - it is in Karl Popper ’s famous phrase ‘a world of clouds’ as well as ‘clocks’. ‘Bottom-up’ thinking has served science extremely well, but even in the most basic of systems in physics it has

on G. G. Simpson and Karl Popper , Peacocke claims that there are “propensities” for such properties. Examples include complexity, information-processing and -storage ability, and language. They characterize the gradual evolution