/sci/ - Science & Math

What does /sci/ think of superdeterminism?

All species are transitory. If you start an argument with a retarded assumption (species are fixed) you should expect a retarded result (there are no fossils of transitory species).

Mutations can obviously add information. Example: primitive photoreceptor only detects infrared light, mutation slightly expands the sensitive range and now the creature can see in the visible light spectrum
Or a gene that originally coded to turn off after profucing one "eye" mutates and fails to turn off, resulting in the production of an extra eye and the attainment of stereoscopic vision.

Radiometric dating: sure it sucks and maybe we can dismiss it as reliable evidence that the earth is a specific age. But how does that lead to the conclusion that earth is younger? It could just as easily be 100x older than we think if all our measurements are retarded.

Don't know enough to argue anything else. Points about origin of sexual reproduction and soft tissue in fossils are interesting if true.