----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burgeson" <burgy@compuserve.com>
To: "ASA LISTSERV" <asa@calvin.edu>
Cc: "Glenn Morton" <grmorton@psyberlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:42 PM
Subject: Gasket analogy
> So far -- OK. My difficulty is with the gasket math I suppose. I seems to
> me that in at least SOME cases, extremely rare, I grant you, perhaps 1 in
> 2**20000, the pattern you confidently assert "always" appears, would, in
> fact, not appear.
Not so, Burgy. The gasket always appears. There is absolutely no chance the
gasket won't appear--none whatsoever.
If you make a different set of rules, a different pattern is developed--only
with a different set of rules. Go to my page
http://home.flash.net/~mortongr/nonlin.htm
and download the programs at
http://home.flash.net/~mortongr/program.htm
IN this series of programs I have a system which is similar to Sierpinski's
gasket except with a different set of rules. What I mutate in the program is
the set of rules. Each rule gives a deterministic result. There is
absolutely no chance that this set of rules won't produce the expected
pattern. What is unknown is the direction the traveling dot will take next.
>
> Another question -- I visited your web site last week. Do you have a link
> to the ASA web site there? I did not see one. Also, a reference to this
ASA
> LISTSERV might be appropriate. Finally, I was not able to find the gasket
> case there; I quit after looking around for about 5 minutes or so.
See the above web pages for what you are looking for.
>
> I shared some of your Neandertal posts a couple days ago with a
> fundamentalist friend of mine. I think she was rather overwhelmed. "I
> believe what I believe" was her response. I am not sure now I will do a
> followup. Maybe.
FRankly, this is what both sides in this debate do-- I believe what I
believe. Very few really want to solve the issue and regardless of what the
data says about their view being wrong, they believe what they want to
believe.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
Lots of information on creation/evolution
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