What is it you want, exactly? You needn't be a scientist to see the difference between a fish & a human but those differences are biological
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"Zeus exists and when he's angry he lights up the sky with thunderbolts" is an explanation for why the sky lights up with thunderbolts
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Yes, I know what explanations are, thank you. If there was as much evidence for Zeus as there was for evolution, I'd accept him.
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the criteria you adduced are not the correct criteria for good explanations
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independent testability and novel predictive success are how we distinguish good from bad (non-ad-hoc from ad-hoc) explanations
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