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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 07 January 2008 04:22:17PM 3 points [-]

Utilitarian, you said:

non-falsifiable conclusions that scientists take for granted: for instance, that the only things that exist are matter (rather than, say, an additional immaterial spirit) or that evolution happens by itself (rather than, say, being directed by an intelligent designer).

How much time did you spend trying to come up with predictions from these hypotheses before declaring them unfalsifiable?