listo comments on Fake Causality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: listo 30 December 2011 10:38:03PM 6 points [-]

"Could evolution be a fake explanation in that it doesn’t predict anything?"

I wouldn't think so. Evolution theory predicted things like the kind of animals that are in some islands before exploring them. It also predicts what kind of fosils will you find someplace. It also predicts that if you get a bunch of dogs and select only the bigger ones, several generations later you will have "created" a new race of bigger dogs. Etc.