There are two camps of science: the provisional verification camp, which was really the first to arise, in a formal sense, when Francis Bacon formulated “the scientific method.” The second camp arose when philosophers such as Kant and Hume realized that there was an issue with induction. They questioned why repeated observations, consistent with a given explanation, really provided any justification for the theory. This concern led to Karl Popper creating a new view of science, as a system of falsification. And that’s where we’ll start this discussion.« Continue »