The Stage Theory of Theories

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Ya know what you're doing wrong right now? Imagining that you have the answer to everything.

But I don't mind. You're kinda clever

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I'd say it's a respectable position. But there are a couple of strong arguments against it.

 

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I'd like to think you're right, friend, but the history of science suggests otherwise.

Can you name a scientific theory that wasn't abandoned within 200 years or so?

 

Ahem, ever read those evo-devo folks?

I hereby challenge you again to articulate the principle of natural selection in a way that it not utterly vacuous.

For the sake of science and sensible conversation. Ok?

I will apologize if I'm wrong.

 

Let me get the ball rolling . . . those organisms with traits beneficial to survivial and reproduction will tend to . . . um, survive and reproduce more successfully than those without.

Does that sound about right?

 

I did say above. One point at a time, pal. I'm dizzy here LOL

 

Please don't get me wrong. Darwin did his best. But gimme 100 years and people will be laughing at this natural selection tautologous crap

 

Ok, here's your trivia question, my friend.

What explains dark peppered moths becoming more prevalent in sooty Victorian England?

1. Their black skin, or

2. Those more likely to survive will tend to survive (= natural selection)

Get me?

 

Ok, but you can you define "better adapted" without reference to survival and reproduction?

See the prob yet?


All you're saying is "those more suited to survive (those better adapted) will do it better than than the less fit (= those less able to survive and reproduce)

And you don't need to get off your armchair to establish that

 

It's like saying "the casino has the upper hand therefore the casino will tend to win"

Are you with me?

 

Have you read Moliere?

Tee hee

 

If you don't trust me, will you trust Albert Einstein?



"We can indeed see from Newton's formulation of it that the concept of absolute space, which comprised that of absolute rest, made him feel uncomfortable; he realized that there seemed to be nothing in experience corresponding to this last concept. He was also not quite comfortable about the introduction of forces operating at a distance. But the tremendous practical success of his doctrines may well have prevented him and the physicists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from recognizing the fictitious character of the foundations of his system." - "On the Methods of Theoretical Physics", Einstein,


How do you interpret "fictitious character"? LOL

What Albert is saying is, as you are, Newtonian mechanics is instrumentally useful but a conceptual mess.

 

Give me an example of its explanatory power then. I'm asking nicely.

 

Because my father lied to me and I searched everywhere.