[MD] A problem with the MOQ.

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Mark (as an empirical scientist)]
> Data has no pattern until it is subjected to a theory.  It is the
> theory which provides the pattern...the data is completely neutral
> and could care less about the theory.

Quite the opposite...the data couldn't care less about the theory.
Your science lesson was bereft of examples, so let's consider one:
snow-flake formation.
Under certain weather conditions, water particles crystalize
into a six-armed pattern (no 2 alike.)  We may come up with ever more
sophisticated and successful theories about why they do this,
but the water particles couldn't care less about our theories,
they form their patterns despite us. 
Craig