(September 19, 2010 at 10:56 pm)tackattack Wrote: Doesn't a scientific hypothesis presuppose truth.
No. A hypothesis is constructed from the information available. You don't get to just make something up and then look for evidence to support it.
Once the hypothesis is proposed, you attempt to disprove it through testing (not selectively look for evidence to support it, ignoring all the contrary evidence and making up ad hoc hypotheses to explain away what you can't ignore). Then your colleagues will try to rip apart your hypothesis in the process of peer review. If your evidence survives the gauntlet of peer review, it's accepted as a theory.
Those more knowledgeable of the scientific method can correct me but that's my layman's understanding.
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