Correction:
There is no evidence to rule out the possibility that the Universe is
infinite.
If the Universe is infinite then all our collective human "knowledge" is
infinitesimal relative to that infinity.
Therefore we might be DROWNING in uncertainties.
As long as we might be DROWNING in uncertainties, there is no way for us to
determine the
probability of us DROWNING in uncertainties.
We simple don't know how much we don't know.
So for us to extrapolate anything on to a possible infinite universe from
the vantage point of an
infinitesimal insight is the height of arrogance.
Since science might have an infinite number of revisions, why hang your soul
on the current version ?
What can’t the universe start with ?
I pity the poor God that is limited by your imagination.
I wish scientist's would stick to their own knitting...the practical realm,
where they can round off all the infinities they want.
Leave the big answers to the philosophers.
-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@udomo5.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@udomo5.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of James Taggart
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:09 AM
To: Moorad Alexanian; John W Burgeson; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: RE: Evolution Statement
Evolutionary theory, as it is practices is a forensic science. It
could, in theory, be tested as a scientific process by taking a 'target'
life form, dividing it into two (or more) breeding colonies that can't
intermix, and wait to see what happens. It is likely that you'd have to
study the beings for a long time, but if you had genetic records of each
generation then you could record evolution as fact.
-----Original Message-----
From: Moorad Alexanian [mailto:alexanian@uncwil.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:53 AM
To: John W Burgeson; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Evolution Statement
I looked over the review that you wrote and it seems to me that the fact
that Casti gives quantum mechanics a "D" in explanation and an "A" in
prediction tells me much of what Casti means by the word explanation.
Nature is rather complicated and the attempt of quantum mechanics to
describe it is quite successful. One ought not to demand the kind of
explanations one feels comfortable with but instead find the one that
nature
may be imposing on us. If one has not a well defined meaning of what
science
is, then it is quite easy to confuse science with human reasoning. I
have
often said that the subject matter of science is data collected by
physical
devices. The human mind makes inferences from that data to develop
theories.
Evolutionary theory is forensic science and as such can never say that
evolution is a fact. Let us not turn the hypothesis of the
evolutionists
into a fact---that is not only bad logic but also a deception!!!
Moorad
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