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Predictive power

This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington seemed to confirm Einstein's predictions.



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Brendan McKay

Outside of this specialty, McKay is best known for his collaborative work with a group of Israeli mathematicians that criticizes the Bible code hypothesis by arguing that the patterns in the Bible that supposedly indicate some hidden message from a divine source or have predictive power can be just as easily found in other works, such as War and Peace.

Guy Garcia

Garcia is the current President & CEO of Mentametrix, Inc., a next-generation research, marketing and consulting company that combines: 1 multicultural consumer insight from a sociological phenomenon he coined The New Mainstream, for which he has written a book by the same name; and 2 the predictive power of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and other online research technologies.

Survival of the fittest

Skeptic Society founder and Skeptic magazine publisher Dr. Michael Shermer addresses this argument in his 1997 book, Why People Believe Weird Things, in which he points out that although tautologies are sometimes the beginning of science, they are never the end, and that scientific principles like natural selection are testable and falsifiable by virtue of their predictive power.