(May 3, 2017 at 5:23 pm)Grandizer Wrote: ...if some scientific theory says that one should expect to see certain fossils in these layers here rather than in the layers over there, then the fossil record would constitute scientific evidence if these certain fossils do happen to be found in these layers and not in other layers.
Indeed. It's a very fine line though, isn't it? An analogous historical theory would say that a particular type of potshard would only be found at certain layers of a dig site or that artifacts from a specific cultural group won't be found in some area before a certain date. You can predict that if one culture reports seeing major cosmic events, others will too. Now is that science or is it history? How does one draw the line? Now suppose the cosmic event happened in 300 B.C. but only two scribes told of it - one in Greece another in India. And the Greek report is recorded by the disciple of the person who actually observed it. Do we just say, well, those are just anecdotes?
