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Old 03-August-2008, 02:58 PM
Joe Durnavich Joe Durnavich is offline
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Originally Posted by JonClarke View Post
Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.

No it can't, because correlation without understanding the relationships that cause the correlation or successfully sifting alternatrives to find the relationship cannot advance science.
When science does provide that understanding, has it not merely found yet another correlation?
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