"There is no experiment that can
prove which (PC or TE) is correct. The difference is due to different
metaphysical
beliefs..>
I'd suggest that you overstate the situation here. I may agree that there
has been no experiment/discovery so far; I don't know about the future
with as much certainty as you! < G >
>>Now you are going to say that PC is an alternative position to
evolution.
it isn't because there is NO experimentum crucis that can distinguish
between PC, TE and atheistic evolution. These last 3 positions from an
observational point of view are all identical, using the very same data
with different metaphysical twists.>>
I'm going to, again, disagree, Glenn. I expressly laid out that I think,
at least at present, the PC position (for that matter, the TE position
also) is one of philosophy -- not science. Which leads me to agree with
your observation that there is (at least not today) any "experimentum
crucis" (is that good Latin?) to differentiate between them. So we are
discussing philosophy, not science. In philosophy, I assert, PC IS an
alternative to TE as well as to AE.
Oh yes -- to say "PC is not an alternative to evolution" is nonsense.
It's true -- in the same sense as PC is not an alternative to quantum
mechanics. The word "evolution" is just too broad a term to use in the
sense you used it.
Burgy
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