Re: Commit to your bogus rules (SETI vs. DNA-ID)
- From: bryce.topmind.jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 3 Sep 2006 05:32:29 -0700
topmind wrote:
3. ALL RELEVANT EXISTING KNOWLEGE must be included.
Whaaaat? A theory is not valid if a peice of info is inadvertantly
skipped?
If relevant evidence is found, a scientific hypothesis may well have to
be abandoned.
But it has not happened in this case.
You have not produced a scientific hypothesis. The Bryce Jacobs DNA-ID
cargo cult non-hypothesis ("There are no known sequential prime digits
(as defined by encoding algorithm X) longer than length Y in the DNA of
earth species.") is cargo cult science. It has the form of an
hypothesis, but none of the substance.
As repeatedly explained to you, a scientific hypothesis must explain
empirical observations, must be based on empirical evidence and
logical, scientifically supported assumptions, and must make specific,
testable predictions the failure of which would serve to falsify it.
Answer the questions that you've been evading:
- What empirical observations lead to your hypothesis? Note that
analogies are not evidence, particularly when they fail to take into
consideration essential characteristics of one of the entities being
compared.
- On what assumptions does your hypothesis depend?
- What is the scientific and logical basis for each of those
hypothesis? Note that any additional assumptions required must also be
scientifically and logically supported. For example, interstellar
travel is not automatically plausible.
- What is algorithm X? How exactly does it derive from the empirical
observations and grounded assumptions underlying your hypothesis?
- What is length Y? Why Y, exactly, rather than Y-1 or Y*57?
- What predictions derive directly from your hypothesis?
- How can those predictions be tested?
- How would a failure of any of those predictions falsify your
hypothesis?
Unless and until you answer these questions, with enough precision to
allow others to understand your reasoning and reproduce your
experiments, your speculations remain untestable and non-scientific.
BJ
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http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/dfa00a58f25f28ac:
Bryce Jacobs (topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
| First make a list of the first 500 prime numbers:
| A: 1, 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 29 .....
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