Good points. Besides being an overly provocative term, I don't think "post-theory science" is a belligerent to "theory-based" science. It's not logically comp

Good points. Besides being an overly provocative term, I don't think "post-theory science" is a belligerent to "theory-based" science. It's not logically compatible or incompatible with other theories, because it's not logically based. It may be contradict theoretical predictions, and that's where empiricism comes in. Long term, if successful, deep learning models of metabolism may be useful or irrelevant to the development of a theoretical understanding.