RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2021 at 5:00 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 29, 2021 at 4:16 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Yeah, not to mention why are Ptolemy's epicycles better examples since you said any theory will do? Especially since epicycles were added almost 2 thousand years ago, if you wanted to use it as "a better example" of keeping the theory alive with adding revisions then why not mention some new revisions that were added to geocentrism? Because nobody is adding any since it was proven wrong.
I used this example because most people know it; and it illustrates how theories are modified. The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (IIT) for example, is currently in its third iteration. But I don't expect anyone here to be familiar with it. As for the geocentric model, certainly, one of its first revisions was that of changing circular orbits to elliptical orbits.
Quote:Because nobody is adding any since it [Ptolomy] was proven wrong.
The reason why no one is adding to it has to do with scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts, not because of its "proven" wrong:
"Although it is not uncommon for people to say that Copernicus proved Ptolemy wrong, that is not true. As in the case of our normal view versus that of the goldfish, one can use either picture as a model of the universe, for our observations of the heavens can be explained by assuming either the earth or the sun to be at rest" -Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design.