Re: Dawkins

Russell T. Arndts (rta@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu)
Sat, 9 Sep 95 12:42:06 EDT

>To Stephen Jones -- "Dawkins refused to predict... "
>
>This seems to be a characteristic of the evolution theory. Like
>meteorology, it does a pretty fair job EXPLAINING what we find in nature but a
>very poor job of prediction. It's inherent in the theory though -- and not
>at all a fault of the theory.
>
>John Casti's excellent book of a few years ago -- SEARCH FOR CERTAINTTY, which
>followed his PARADIGMS LOST, makes this point extremely well.
>
>John W. Burgeson
>Austin, Texas

Thus evolution is histroy rather than science.

Russell T. Arndts