Getting Real: The Hypothesis of Organic Fossil Origins
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2009
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In this paper I hope to at least begin to explore when this “problem of unconceived alternatives” does and does not pose a serious challenge to belief in the claims of our best theoretical science by considering an especially revealing biological example: the hypothesis that fossils are the remains of once-living organisms.
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modern, induction, realism, geology, biology, evolution, archeology