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...that a thought experiment uses a hypothetical scenario to help us understand things through a priori, rather than empirical methodology. It does not use observation or physical experiment. Understanding comes through reflection on the situation.

...that the philosophy of biology has matured greatly since the rise of Neodarwinism in the 1930s and 1940s, the discovery of the structure of Deoxyribonucleic acid in 1953, and more recent advances in genetic engineering.
...that Occam's razor argues the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating, or "shaving off," those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory?

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