One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher

Re:One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Camb... by baddox on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:34PM (#22618453)

But you’re using precisely the mindset that you should be using. You doubt that DNA or evolution will be falsified.

And, of course, Einstein’s theory absolutely did falsify Newton’s. I’m not aware of any epistemology or terminology within which you can claim that he didn’t.

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Re:One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Camb... by dlivingston on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:23PM (#22619692)

I like to think of scientific theories as having a certain "resolution", à la photos. Over time, our collective resolution over some domain increases.

For example, Newton's Principia isn't wrong. Newton's gravity is just a lower-resolution photo than Einstein's; a first-order approximation to Einstein's second-order.

And the day will come (or so Brian Greene et al. hope) when Einstein's general theory of relativity will be "falsified", and so on, because any human interpretation of reality is necessarily that: an interpretation.

Theories just get more "granular" in the depth of their answers.

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