OpinionSeptember 5, 2021
When Lord Kelvin Nearly Killed Darwin’s Theory
The eminent 19th-century physicist argued—wrongly, it turned out—that Earth wasn’t old enough to have let natural selection play out
Stories by Mano Singham
Mano Singham is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the retired director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education and adjunct associate professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University. His latest book is The Great Paradox of Science: Why its conclusions can be relied upon even though they cannot be proven (Oxford University Press).
OpinionSeptember 7, 2020
The Idea That a Scientific Theory Can Be ‘Falsified’ Is a Myth
It’s time we abandoned the notion