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>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and that’s why respecting science is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life.

Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

>>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and **that’s why respecting science** is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life. Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

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Which evidence better fits the model?

God creates a universe, eventually choses the best looking rock globe and then sits there for a billion years trying out different flavours of soup, fish, dinosaurs and squirrels before finally settling on making a man (and for some reason making niggers amazingly similar to monkeys)

Or soup evolved and we have a long trail of weird stuff that it all involved into until we ended up with clever monkeys which then forked into men and niggers.

men look at these processes and can replicate most of them, a bit like I can do any of the jobs required to build a house, but I haven't actually built a whole one yet.

If any one person was clever enough to understand all these processes simultaneously, then we wouldn't need quite so many people studying it all

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The fact that you can copy all or part of a building, doesn't mean that this building is the result of randomness

Also, it's not for random reasons if that building, that structure, doesn't collapse. Just as it's not for random reasons that the "how to", the knowledge to build it, has been preserved and transmitted

Guy1: Life is the product of genetic engineering

Guy2: magic soup came out of nowhere

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humans were randomly putting up structures for centuries, just because we have elevators, air con and underfloor heating now, doesn't make any of it sky pixie magic

if evolution wasn't a thing, life would have stopped evolving around 2000BC, but it doesn't, therefore these processes are eternal and inevitable

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Elevators, air con, and underfloor heating, those structures aren't the result of randomness

Now regarding evolution... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonoscorpius

>Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis (from Latin pulmonis scorpius, 'lung scorpion') is an extinct species of scorpion[1] that lived during the Viséan and Serpukhovian ages of the Carboniferous period, around 336.0 – 326.4 million years ago.[2]

Are you ready for a breathtaking picture of that extinct animal? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/20210116_Pulmonoscorpius_kirktonensis.png

Yeah

That's a scorpion