The Science of Causation

There is a general issue with causation. What we aspire to in science is more than just catalogue of what pened when. In scientific endeavours, we do try to discern why things happened. Since hume, we have known that this is very difficult. We see constant conjunctions easily, but finding causal relations is harder still. Darwin argued for this conclusion from two premises that we saw were empirical and falsifiable. Each of these was empirically testable,. even in darwin's day, and his evidence for both was copious.