[beambot]

If you drop an apple & observe that it falls, you get some predictive value about the nature of gravity. But that's a far cry from computing the orbital dynamics of a spacecraft. Parent's comment on "transparency" in the mapping from genotype to phenotype was more akin to the latter -- and their point stands.

[ddiq]

Do you not think studying gravity lead to predictive value before we reached a point of being able to compute orbital dynamics of a spacecraft?

[rdlecler1]

We sent astronauts to the moon with Newtonian physics. No need for relativity. This is more akin to relativity in that it expands our domain knowledge and explanatory power but the old model already does most of the work.

[danharaj]

You can read their comment history to contextualize their angle.