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Re: Laws and Theories (was Creationists)

Karl Popper (a major name in Philosophy of Science - back in the 20th Century)
coined the term 'Post-dictive' as opposed to Pre-dictive to allow
himself to classify evolutionary biology (and cosmology) as science.
This seems similar to your 'reactive' adjective.


At 11:48 AM -0600 3/4/00, Jack Uretsky wrote:

I'm saying the evolutionary biology seems to be pretty much a
reactive science. The evidence is all dead and buried and waiting to
be interpreted. So if you want to believe that it was all created and
buried yesterday, nothing much changes. Cosmology is somewhat similar
in that we are retricted to a very parochial view of the universe bot
temporally and spatially.

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