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Speculation. You could say the same thing about a point on a wheel too.
by abc_lisper 6y ago
Speculation. You could say the same thing about a point on a wheel too.
- dmos62 6y agoIt might be bad form to nitpick a nitpick, but whether a statement is a speculation depends on how much information it is based on. We don't know how they came up with the number, so we don't know if it's speculation. We can't say it's not speculation for the same reason. Now, if I were to say that this anecdotal data-point is scientifically significant, that would be speculation.
- abc_lisper 6y agoProof matters. It’s not on the reader to work it out. Everything else is an opinion or speculation
- mike741 6y agoProof doesn't really matter. Most theories you have in your life are unproven. Scientific hypotheses should be falsifiable which means unproven. There are dozens of comments in this section making unproven claims that you don't seem to have taken issue with. You just don't like this one in particular because its associated with a religion.
- abc_lisper 6y agoThey should be falsifiable and they should make predictions under various conditions and be right about them for the hypothesis to be considered a theory. Does this have them? Usually successful hypotheses have a body of work behind them, say like Newton’s principia or Darwin’s origin of species. They usually have corollaries and extensions which extol the same truth in various ways. Rest is opinion/speculation - just because it is religion I won’t give it a free pass.
- rbanffy 6y agoWith the important difference you can actually demonstrate it for the point on a wheel.
- abc_lisper 6y agoAgreed