Beauty being based entirely on personal taste and perception.
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Mon 24 May 2010, 12:57,
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Beauty here being a portmanteau for efficiency, predictive power, and so on.For sure, that a simply hypothesis is better than a complicated one might be thought of as unargued; but I think it's more of an axiom. If you abandon it, science very quickly becomes impossible. I think you're therefore entititled to accept it; it's possible that you're even obliged to do so, on pain of no longer being a scientist.
That still doesn't indicate anything like equivalence with supernaturalism.
(That still doesn't indicate anything like equivalence with supernaturalism.
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Mon 24 May 2010, 13:21,
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Ah, well - if we're doing portmanteaus, then Shirley "It is God's will" is just a quicker way of saying"Theribald-Johnson & co 1937 study of predictive skin disorder concluding that dermatitis leads to engorged neuralgia, from which we can extrapolate thusly ... "
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Mon 24 May 2010, 13:26,
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If everyone understands that that's what's meant by the phrase "God's will",then there might be some mileage to the idea.
But I have a hunch that the overwhelming majority of people who use the term "God's will" think that that's all there is to it; they don't, after all, have a great reputation for making use of respected dermatological journals...
(But I have a hunch that the overwhelming majority of people who use the term "God's will" think that that's all there is to it; they don't, after all, have a great reputation for making use of respected dermatological journals...
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Mon 24 May 2010, 13:29,
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Hunch, eh?Sounds unscientific to me.
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Mon 24 May 2010, 13:32,
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Meh Enzyme is powered by sunlight,
Mon 24 May 2010, 13:44,
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