Timeline for scientific inquiry of theory of evolution [closed]
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Hokon PW_246 J D |
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Mark Andrews Davius user14511 |
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| Aug 28, 2022 at 9:46 | history | closed |
Conifold armand Philip Klöcking♦ |
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| Aug 28, 2022 at 9:44 | comment | added | David Gudeman | A side point: your example of "taller than", the conclusion cannot be inferred with logic alone; you also need a theory that says "taller than" is transitive. As to the rest, you are mistaken if you think deduction give some special certainty of correctness because deduction is only valid, not certain. That means the conclusion is only true if the premises are true, and you can't ultimately derive the premises from deduction. | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 2:19 | comment | added | armand | Biologists can accurately predict how long a given pesticide will be efficient on a given insect population from their rate of mutation and the frequency of their reproduction cycle (here is an abstract introducing such kind of predictions). The prediction can't be made with 100% accuracy because the observed phenomenon is extraordinarily complex and not yet fully understood, yet it is also the case of any non trivial physics problem (nobody can tell you with 100% accuracy how much fuel a given plane will consume from Paris to Shanghai). | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 2:03 | comment | added | armand | @BillOnne a clear sign that OP is a creationist | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 1:53 | answer | added | BillOnne | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 1:33 | comment | added | BillOnne | What is "macro evolutionary biology?" | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 23:51 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 27, 2022 at 23:46 | comment | added | Conifold | This is not a question but a statement. If it is meant as a reference request for papers in evolutionary biology that have formal deductions in them then it is better addressed to Biology SE. If not, what is the question? | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 23:03 | comment | added | quanity | @ScottRowe " I have not seen a single derivation/proof of this kind in any published research or textbook in macro evolutionary biology. Notice that I am not talking about 'proving' that evolutionary theory is true. That requires non-deductive logic. I am talking about proving that an alleged prediction is indeed a prediction." | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 22:58 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | I'm sorry quanity, I don't understand the question. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 20:08 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 27, 2022 at 19:36 | comment | added | Conifold | Is there a question here? If you are looking for mathematical deductions mathematical biology is a natural place to look, and there are plenty of axioms and definitions in population dynamics or genetics. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 19:18 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Purely logical deduction of predictions from a set of axioms only seems practically possible in physics and chemistry, where we have some canonical set of mathematical laws that everything else is supposed to derive from. Wouldn't the same problem apply to geology, or the study of non-evolutionary aspects of biology like diseases? The reductionist thesis is that everything in these fields should in principle be deducible from physics + initial conditions, but that isn't possible in practice so scientists have to make due with more qualitative statements of theories in these fields. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 18:09 | answer | added | CriglCragl | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 17:00 | history | edited | Mark Andrews | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 27, 2022 at 16:43 | answer | added | J D | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 16:11 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | But biology produced many useful explanations and discoveries, like vaccine and this is science. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 15:51 | history | asked | quanity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |