Today, science is the religion to which we try and understand reality and science is more about seeking perceptual validation through observation, through experiment theory.

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When asked what observation would disprove the theory of evolution, J.

ECONOMIST: The evidence for evolution

This observation led to the theory that some mysterious, gravitationally repulsive dark energy must be behind the rising expansion of the cosmos - although we don't really have the foggiest idea what that is.

BBC: Dark discussion ahead for Europe and US

Prizes for natural science are rarely given to theory makers until their theories have survived contact with observation and experiment.

ECONOMIST: Nobel prizes

He calls them Black Swans, after the philosopher Karl Popper's observation that only a single black swan is required to falsify the theory that "all swans are white" even when there are thousands of white swans in evidence.

WSJ: Shattering the Bell Curve

His books consist of a series of plainly stated statistical observations, in support of deceptively modest conclusions, and the evidence in support of his original observation is now so overwhelming that the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact.

NEWYORKER: None of the Above