Walter Hicks wrote:
Insofar as the "grand evolutionary theory" goes. I did a phrase search
using Google and came up with only ONE hit on the web
(http://www.cpjustice.org/stories/storyReader$552) . For "unified field
theory" I got 12,700. Both of these theories share something in common
in that neither of them exist yet. Both are pie in the sky notions that
science might some day realize. (IMHO)
Unified field theory today is often equated with "theory of
everything" & in that sense of course it hasn't yet been achieved. But
field theories that unify previously distinct phenomena have been
successful & are now well established. Maxwell's theory that unified
the electric and magnetic vector fields into a single skew-tensor field,
as special relativity makes clear, & the Weinberg-Salam electroweak
unification of E&M & the weak interaction is now widely accepted.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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