RE: What is evidence?
October 4, 2016 at 12:22 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2016 at 12:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That there is any specific direction to the evolution of life, and that if there were, it would be complex organisms. Beyond any questions of how slippery your metrics are for complexity, or in what sense you may be deigning to use the term....it's simply an untenable position. We know it to be untrue.
If some method that you've applied to some observation leads to known, and demonstrably false, conclusions...there is either a problem with the method..or the observations (in fact that's one way we test our propositions and our inferences for soundness and validity). Your observation, apparently, had to do with the presence (or lack thereof) of spikescars in a tree.. seems to be fairly mundane...but this extrapolation from that is so fanciful that I'm surprised that I even have to elaborate, and leaves me entirely certain that the problem is in method.
If some method that you've applied to some observation leads to known, and demonstrably false, conclusions...there is either a problem with the method..or the observations (in fact that's one way we test our propositions and our inferences for soundness and validity). Your observation, apparently, had to do with the presence (or lack thereof) of spikescars in a tree.. seems to be fairly mundane...but this extrapolation from that is so fanciful that I'm surprised that I even have to elaborate, and leaves me entirely certain that the problem is in method.
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