RE: Judge Jones sided with the Discovery Institute and ruled against the Dove...

Gödel showed that in any axiomatic mathematical system there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved within the axioms of the system. For instance, the very consistency of the axioms cannot be proved. I believe that the propositions that one considers that can neither be proved nor disproved are not derived from the axiomatic system itself but by human intuition, which is external to the axiomatic system.

 
Moorad

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From: George L. Murphygmurphy@raex.com [mailto:gmurphy@raex.com]
Sent: Wed 1/4/2006 10:30 AM
To: Alexanian, Moorad; David Opderbeck; Pim van Meurs
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: RE: Judge Jones sided with the Discovery Institute and ruled against the Dove...

> All theories in physics are logically closed. That is to say, physical theories do not "leak out" into the nonphysical realm. However, evolutionary theory is not logically closed, since it is ill-defined. Accordingly, evolutionary theory "leaks out" into other areas of human inquires. Herein lies the whole problem.

Goedel's theorem says that theories in physics (to the extent that they're mathematical, as they should be) cannot be logically closed.
Of course this says nothing about where the leak(s) may be.

Shalom,
George
Received on Wed Jan 4 10:54:25 2006