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Although not a [[creation science|creation scientist]] Swedish [[genetics|geneticist]], Dr. [[Heribert Nilsson]], Professor of Botany at the University of Lund in [[Sweden]], stated: "My attempts to demonstrate Evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least, I should hardly be accused of having started from a preconceived antievolutionary standpoint."<ref>[http://www.custance.org/Library/Volume4/Part_I/chapter6.html Nilsson, Heribert, Synthetische Artbildung, Verlag CWK Gleerup, Lund, Sweden, 1953, page 1185]</ref>
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Although not a [[creation science|creation scientist]] Swedish [[genetics|geneticist]], Dr. [[Heribert Nilsson]], Professor of Botany at the University of Lund in [[Sweden]], stated: "My attempts to demonstrate Evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least, I should hardly be accused of having started from a preconceived antievolutionary standpoint."<ref>[http://www.custance.org/Library/Volume4/Part_I/chapter6.html Nilsson, Heribert, Synthetische Artbildung, Verlag CWK Gleerup, Lund, Sweden, 1953, page 1185]</ref>
    
[[Karl Popper]], a leading philosopher of science and originator of the [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], stated that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] research programme.<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> Leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, [[Michael Ruse]] acknowledged regarding Popper's statement and [[Falsifiability of Evolution|the actions he took after making that statement]]: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>
 
[[Karl Popper]], a leading philosopher of science and originator of the [[Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation of Science from Nonscience|falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience]], stated that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] research programme.<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> Leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, [[Michael Ruse]] acknowledged regarding Popper's statement and [[Falsifiability of Evolution|the actions he took after making that statement]]: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref>
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