Scientific Validity

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I wish I could post a poll with twelve options, but I can’t — ten is the max. So, I have combined two possible answers into one, to fit it in to the poll parameters.

Evaluate the following three statements for their scientific validity, if you would please:
  1. There are black swans.
  2. There are married bachelors.
  3. There are unicorns.
Here are your options:

A. Scientifically valid, with a known answer.
B. Scientifically valid, and currently unknown.
C. Not scientifically valid.
 
No poll, I miscalculated. I’d actually need 27 answers! 😦 But ok, it seems folks are answering without a poll. That is good.
 
I have seen a black swan before. A married bachelor is an impossible being. A unicorn could exist, but we have no evidence for it.

1 → A
2 → C
3 → B
 
Love4All said:
I would say the answer to 2 is C, not A.
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its a scientifically valid statement and the known answer is no there are not married bachelors. so, A.

if it said there are married bachelor leprechauns then it would not be a scientifically valid statement.
sometimes scientifically valid statements return a negative value.🤷
 
A
C
C

I imagine some will disagree with my third choice. There is much reason to believe that the image of a unicorn was fabricated and made by piecing together elements of other animals. Biology, I think, would predict that unicorns do not exist because it would be unreasonable to conceive of an environment in which there would be evolutionary pressure for a horse to evolve a horn. Perhaps I am mistaking what you mean by “validity,” but the predictive power of science, though not certain, does not imply that all conceivable creatures are scientifically valid, in my understanding of the term.
 
OP, you could have made this a multiple choice poll…

It would have taken only 9 poll slots.
 
Alberti_Devoveo said:
I have seen a black swan before. A married bachelor is an impossible being. A unicorn could exist, but we have no evidence for it.

1 → A
2 → C
3 → B
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I go with 1 → A,

As for 2 I could be mischievious and say that I have a bachelor degree AND am married.

When it comes to 3 → A fabled creature symbolic of virginity and usually represented as a horse with a single straight spiraled horn projecting from its forehead - so seems a very very very very long shot to have ever been a physical reality.
 
B- i saw one but I don’t know if is alive anymore
C- contradiction in term
C- not scientifically proven, science is about evidence
 
Scientific validity only gives an indication that with the prevailing available faculty, we are able to comprehend completely a particular phenomena.
The word completely is always questionable.
Earth revolves round the Sun. This is valid. A time may come, or i would say , it is already here that , it is Sun that goes round the earth.
The proposition once it is acceptable to the reasoning mind , the validity takes a U - turn.
The mind is such a subjective thing that can it can be put to illusion in so many ways.
Certain things for me are, though abstract , are unchangeable.
Pain and happiness.
Think about it.
Tiny A D
 
Ion said:
B- i saw one but I don’t know if is alive anymore
C- contradiction in term
C- not scientifically proven, science is about evidence
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If there were sasquach instead of the unicorn, for the third point my option would have been B. Including the possibility that “sasquach” can be “human dressed like a gorila”
 
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