Re: I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG

On Friday, December 26, 2003, at 06:35 AM, wallyshoes wrote:

> 2.) Many Christians have little background in science and depend upon a
> relatively literal reading of scripture. To them, evolution (as taught
> in the secular community) is abhorrent. It replaces God with a RANDOM
> process (and they are not about to, listen to a “song and dance” about
> how God controls the random process since that flies in the face of
> very
> meaning of the word).
>
If the people in the pews think "random" means "uncaused", then talk
of God controlling
a random process does indeed fly in the face of the meaning of the
word. But most of the time when we say an event is random we mean that
the cause of the event is beyond our capability to determine. (In
quantum mechanics I think we're talking about the inability of the
particle/wave distinction to properly characterize small "particles".)

Anyway, perhaps some teaching about what scientists mean when they say
"random" is in order.

Bill Hamilton Rochester, MI 248 652 4148
Received on Fri Dec 26 08:47:57 2003