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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 31 August 2012 10:58:39AM 1 point [-]

The approach can show a tension between the non-causal model and our causal understanding of events. If the model says agriculture must have happened this way, and our knowledge of biology says the opposite, then we need to abandon one of our theories.