Re: Evolution and Observation Gap

On 2006-03-19, topmind <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone wanna comment on this new write-up of mine?:

'Why Evolution is a "Theory" and not a "Fact"'

http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/observe.htm

It's not very good. In particular, it's basic premise, that facts need
to be "fully observed" to be called "fact" is an arbitrary and not
particularly useful definition, and directly at odds with how science
normally defines "fact". Nobody has ever observed Pluto complete an
orbit of the sun, but it is entirely irrational to claim that it is not
a fact that it does.

The rest of your essay does precisely what your previous essay on
ID did: argue irrelevencies. In general, genetic algorithms and
evolutionary computation aren't biological evolution, and nobody claims
that they are. Therefore, nothing abut these topics is at all
useful in deciding if evolution is a fact, just as you are incapable
of showing that ID is science by talking about SETI.

Mark

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