(March 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: 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.
This is because the one is an isomorphism of the other. Truly, the theories that "All swans are white" and "All swans are black" both validly describe the world correctly for appropriate definitions of black and white. Given the right changes, the theories are not just similar but identical. The question is not whether a theory can maintain the appearance of preservation, but whether they can do so within a reasonable understanding of ceteris paribus. With the right changes in background knowledge, the theory of evolution and the theory of design are the same theory and make the same predictions, ala theistic evolution. Unfortunately the changes needed to make the two consistent violate assumptions of the theory of evolution regarding chance and naturalism which are foundational assumptions of the theory. So while theories can be preserved, that doesn't mean that every change necessarily preserves the theory.