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Meditation paths, with Rob Knight

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Difference Between Historical Sciences and Experimental Sciences

The last episode that I released with Isabella is about the difference between historical sciences and experimental sciences. The physics way kind of reasons from cause to effect, it takes a lot of specific examples in the form of experiments and reaches out for general laws. Whereas with the historical sciences, when we say, well, what did the dinosaurs go extinct all at once? And if so, what caused it? So there's like these two ways of seeing things.

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