In both cases, the effect of this outside intelligence is not repeatable, observable or falsifiable, and it violates the principle of parsimony.
en.wikipedia.org When scientists use the idea of parsimony, it only has meaning in a very specific context of inquiry.
en.wikipedia.org For example, parsimony is the best way to produce an evolutionary tree of the species (cladistics), suggesting that parsimonious adaptations are selected.
en.wikipedia.org In phylogenetic analysis, the arbiter among competing hypotheses suggested by different character systems, i.e. incongruence among characters, is parsimony.
www.evolutionnews.org In the scientific method, parsimony is an epistemological, metaphysical or heuristic preference, not an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific result.
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