SUE-T-REX-FMNH-PR-2081-By-JJxFile Type post Date February 5, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionScientific Reasoning Tagged , bacteria, biosphere, chance, complexity, constraints, contingency, convergence, disparity, evolution, life forms, lineages, necessity, randomness, rules, Science Advances, singularities, Stephen Jay Gould, testing, theory testing Gould Said It Was All Contingency and Chance — Well, Maybe Not Science and Culture February 5, 2026 Evolution, Scientific Reasoning 2 Appeals to contingency (i.e., in-principle unrepeatable singularities) disable theory testing. If anything can happen…don’t bother to test, because you can’t. Read More ›
