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The ability of a scientific theory to be refuted is the key criterion that distinguishes science from metaphysics. If a theory cannot be refuted, if there is no observation that will disprove it, then nothing can prove it - it cannot predict anything, it is a worthless myth.

Eric Lerner

Life did not arise as an accidental, wildly improbable leap from molecule to cells or even to viruses, but through a step-by-step evolution, just as humans did not evolve in a single leap from one-celled creatures.

Eric Lerner

The combination of growing specialization and the peer-review system have fractured science into isolated domains, each with a built-in tendency toward theoretical orthodoxy and a hostility to other disciplines.

Eric Lerner

Eric Lerner

Eric Lerner

Born: May 31, 1947 (age 79)

Bio: Eric J. Lerner is an American popular science writer, and independent plasma researcher. He wrote the 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened, which advocates Hannes Alfvén's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory.

Known for:

The Big Bang Never Happened (1991)
Pinkerton's Secret (2008)
Pinkerton's Secret the Original Manuscript (2013)

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