RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 30, 2021 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2021 at 8:47 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 30, 2021 at 5:27 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I agree it's not a complex theory, but it is a theory that explains why we see mostly white swans in the world, just as the theory that ohm's law describes electrical quantities in a circuit explains why our measurements are what they are. A theory need not be complex to be explanatory.
There's something odd about what you're saying. Laws in science are already inductive; they are descriptions of regularities and patterns writ large. But you are taking such laws and transforming them into theories of themselves: The law of behavioral genetics is thus the theory of behavioral genetics, because the claim that all behavioral traits are heritable "explains" why some behavioral traits are heritable. But I see no causal or unifying explanation here.