RE: Popper's so-called `recantation' (was The science educators' Vietnam)

Donald Frack (dcfrack@sowest.net)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:47:11 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: evolution-owner@lists.calvin.edu
> [mailto:evolution-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On Behalf Of Arthur V. Chadwick
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 2:11 PM
> To: evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Popper's so-called `recantation' (was The science
> educators' Vietnam)

[snip]

> No, but why not try peppered moths. Predict that if the tree trunk color
> should change, the population of peppered moths would shift towards a
> darker variant. Then if the trees changed back to a lighter color, the
> peppered moths would shift back to a lighter variant. Then carry out the
> experiments. This is an easily testable claim. Any takers?
>
> No? I thought not.
> Art

Gee, Art. I thought that's what peppered moth researchers had been doing for
the last half century. Guess not.

Don Frack