RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 30, 2021 at 3:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2021 at 4:55 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 30, 2021 at 1:09 pm)Angrboda Wrote: The role of a theory is to explain the evidence.
Right, theories are explanations of things. And explanations either give a causal account of phenomena, or a unification of them. All swans are X isn't a causal account for anything, or a unification of anything, it's simply a description of what all swans are. Such descriptions might instead fall under the category of laws. Consider the structural similarity between your phrase, and the first law of behavioral genetics: All human behavioral traits are heritable.