Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
A theory explains the data, and what we're after are explaining, not deriving from data.

"principles that are timeless" are not based on any data, it's an explanation.

So you'd have to answer the question, where do you think explanations come from?

What exactly explanations are is a little difficult to explain, but it seems to be something like a link between two objects or ideas. And it's the effort of human creativity and imagination that allow us to create this link. We don't know exactly why humans have this ability to come up with explanations, but we can perhaps say that it's a uniquely human ability to come up with explanations that allow us to link between two objects, which also apparently allow us to explain how reality works.
I’m asking you what your criteria are for a theory being timeless. So are you saying you think it’s just that there is logic behind the theory, or...?