Popper’s Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory

Elgin, Mehmet; Sober, Elliott

doi:10.1086/691119

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“…Sederhananya, menemukan fosil kelinci sebelum masa ledakan Cambria akan mengubah segalanya. 53 Namun bahkan dalam skenario seperti itu, tetap saja tidak mustahil untuk membayangkan terjadinya sebuah kejadian alam maha dahsyat yang mengguncang lapisan bumi sehingga fosil itu berpindah dari lapisan aslinya (dengan asumsi bahwa ada bukti saintifik yang menunjukan terjadinya kejadian alam tersebut). 54 Terlebih lagi, meskipun ada skenario seperti itu, tetap saja kita mesti mencari penjelasan alternatif terhadap bukti-bukti dari genetika, biogeografi, homologi, dan bidang kajian lainnya yang menjadi petunjuk terjadinya evolusi.…”

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Accepting Evolution Entails Kufr ?: A Critical Appraisal of Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s Fatwa

2021

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Muslim scholars who oppose the compatibility of Islam and evolution usually advance three kinds of arguments: scientific, metaphysic, and hermeneutic. This paper will examine the position of Nuh Ha Mim Keller, a prominent Sunni scholar who employ these three lines of arguments and proposes that believing in human evolution entails kufr. In this article we will critically analyze Keller’s understanding of the science of evolution in which he claims that the theory of evolution is not robust. We argue that through the consilience of induction, evolution is the best explanation for the biological origins and diversity. We also argue that a more nuanced understanding of the metaphysical and hermeneutical aspects of Islam and evolution debate would reveal that Keller’s anti-evolution claims are unwarranted, including his accusation of kufr against those who accept human evolution.

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Accepting Evolution Entails Kufr ?: A Critical Appraisal of Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s Fatwa

2021

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“…Popper also wrote about evolutionary theory (1972,1974,1978). However, he had some problems with this subject that are well known (Hull, 1999;Elgin & Sober, 2017). Popper (1957) argued that there are no general laws governing the evolution of societies, the evolution of organisms, or the evolution of the whole universe.…”

Section: Popper's Philosophy and Its Relation To Biologymentioning

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Popper as a process: revisiting the appropriation of the Popperian philosophy by the cladists during the “systematics wars”

Santis

2020

Arq. Zool.

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The philosophy of Karl Popper was strongly used by the cladists in their battle against evolutionary and numerical taxonomy. It became known as “Systematics Wars” by David Hull. His historical account in Science as a Process, described the outcome of that era that end up with the victory of cladistics. Claiming it as hypothetico-deductivist, and falsificationist, cladists have transformed and distorted Popper, that almost nothing of these ideas survived scrutiny. One of the Hull’s conclusion was that the success of cladistics was largely due to their ability to maintain social cohesion and intellectual orthodoxy during the years of the Systematic Wars. In this paper, I will provide a concise historical development about the appropriation of Popper’s ideas that were used by systematics, both as a defense and as a critic, trying to make clear the interpretations of these authors in relation to Popper and their research program. Using David Hull’s General Theory of Selection Processes, I will argue that these facts were, partially, to a heavy adherence to Popper’s philosophy.

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“…The hypothesis is one of the variations to lead the scientific investigation (Wong & Hodson, 2009), which is the principal framework for scientific experiment. "Falsifiable" hypothesis, according to Karl Popper (Elgin, & Sober, 2017;Glass, 2010) and "testable" hypothesis is the requirement in scientific research, precisely in the experiment.…”

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Indonesian High School Students’ Perception of Scientific Experiment Using Network Analysis: Differences between Science and Humanities Group

Aini

Syaâ€TMbandari

Rusmana

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JPII

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Understanding what students know about the scientific experiment is essential for their metacognition and their understanding of scientific inquiry. A total of 425 Indonesian high school students participated in this study. Using an open-ended question, this study examined science and humanities group students' perception of a scientific experiment by their narrative explanations. Language network analysis method was used to measure and visualize their perception by examining the relationship between each word of response and its patterns underlying the network. After the process of network analysis, nodes "prove," "observation," "problem," "hypothesis" only found in science students group while nodes "new" "object" "try" "test" found in humanities students group. These results also perceived that science students group considered scientific experiment as an inquiry process while humanities students were more likely into the discovery process. The results of this study could support how scientific experiment as a learning activity was taken differently in science and humanities class in high school.

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Popper’s Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Accepting Evolution Entails Kufr ?: A Critical Appraisal of Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s Fatwa

Accepting Evolution Entails Kufr ?: A Critical Appraisal of Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s Fatwa

Popper as a process: revisiting the appropriation of the Popperian philosophy by the cladists during the “systematics wars”

Indonesian High School Students’ Perception of Scientific Experiment Using Network Analysis: Differences between Science and Humanities Group

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