[ExI] The difference between Discovery and Design.

[Alan Grimes]

john clark wrote:
> On *Wed, 7/27/11, Damien Broderick /<thespike at satx.rr.com>/* wrote:
>
>     "What Aristotle didn't have was 300 years of closely observed and
>     theorized empirical science behind him, itself informed (horrors!)
>     by a monotheistic paradigm that encouraged scientists to assume as
>     their reductionist default that the multiple worlds of empirical
>     experience at many levels were basically *unified* and *lawful*."
>
> But Pythagoras lived almost 2 hundred years before Aristotle and he
> thought the laws of the universe were unified and lawful, he thought
> numbers ruled the world and were behind everything. It's true that the
> ancient Greeks weren't big on observations and didn't make a lot of
> them, but Aristotle wouldn't have needed a lot to derive the theory of
> Evolution, just the observation that offspring were similar to but not
> identical to their parents. With the correct application of logic from
> that starting point he could have done it.

It should be pointed out that Plato and Socrates was aware of the 
possibility of selective breeding and proposed a selective breeding 
program to produce a population of thirty highly intelligent 
philosopher-kings and queens.

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