Zachriel
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| Quote (Zachriel @ Dec. 20 2008,10:18) | | But, Missing Shade of Blue, let's take it one step further. There could conceivably be such a timer in the genomes of organisms. The Theory of Evolution would *predict* that no such timer would exist. By finding such a timer, you could overturn the Theory of Evolution. Do you consider this a reasonable career choice for a budding biologist? Or do you think that further investigation, based on all we know of biology, would mean this search would in all likelihood be futile? |
| Quote (Missing Shade of Blue @ Dec. 20 2008,13:38) | | What I think is needed is a way to break this symmetry without surreptitiously sneaking in our own inductive biases in describing the situation. |
In science, the way we test for bias is by making empirical predictions that are entailed in our hypothesis. If the predictions for a blue universe and a bleen universe are identical, then your claim is scientifically vacuous. If they are not, then you can make empirical predictions to distinguish between the two views.
Otherwise, your argument has nothing to do with the Theory of Evolution except that it's an argument about scientific induction. If you want to make that argument, then you should first dispense with the distraction about biology.
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