RE: The code that is DNA
December 27, 2019 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2019 at 11:25 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 26, 2019 at 11:35 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: That's true for any scientific theory. That's precisely what makes it falsifiable. All you're doing is whittering on about how science doesn't have Absolute Truth.
They're hypotheses not theories. And no, this is about testability not absolute truth. What's the point of raising a straw man lol?
Oh I see. Is it because I used the word true? I was quoting the textbook on Evolutionary Analysis, that's the only reason I used the word:
"Neither Werdelin and Olsson, nor we, nor anyone else, knows the true evolutionary history of the leopard and its kin. Not only do we not know the true history of coat colors, we do not know the true pattern of branching on the tree from the common ancestor to today’s cats. The best Werdelin and Olsson could do was use the available evidence to identify the most plausible scenarios" (p. 113).
My apologies for not putting my references up. I stopped doing it because people find it easier to accuse me of distortion and quote mining, than agree with me. It's more trouble than it's worth. Plus I enjoy sneaking in statements and ideas of leading researchers and seeing you guys say they're uneducated in biology just because you think it's me saying it lol.
Reference: Herron, J. C., Freeman, S. (2014). Evolutionary analysis (5th ed ). Pearson: Boston.