Re: [asa] Random and natural vs. intelligence

My understanding was that you apply a white noise signal when you stroke the
bow or blow across the tube, and the instrument picks out the resonant
frequency. White noise = random. If it wasn't a random signal, containing
all frequencies, then the instrument wouldn't be able to resonate at
different notes as you alter, for example, the length of the string.

Iain

On 11/6/07, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:
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> There are all sorts of books about the physics of music. I do not think
> that the notion of randomness is ever used in such books. All instruments
> are designed to produce an appropriate, pleasant sound. Players who used
> randomness when using any such instruments would invariably lead to bad
> music.
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> Moorad
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> *From:* asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Iain Strachan
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:07 AM
> *To:* Randy Isaac
> *Cc:* asa@calvin.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [asa] Random and natural vs intelligence
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> On 11/6/07, *Randy Isaac* <randyisaac@comcast.net> wrote:
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> <Citing Christianity Today>
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> "Theistic Darwinists maintain that God was "intimately involved" in
> creation, to use Francis Collins's words. But they also think life developed
> via genuinely random mutations and genuinely natural selection. Yet they
> never explain what God is doing in this process. Perhaps there is still room
> for him to start the whole thing off, but this abandons theism for deism."
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> This is essentially the same argument that Lee Strobel used on the radio a
> few weeks ago when he firmly but respectfully rebuked Francis Collins.
> Evolution is inherently random and without guidance and is therefore
> mutually exclusive with divine guidance, he said.
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> When one draws a bow across a violin string or blows across the mouthpiece
> of a flute, one is applying a genuinely random (white noise) signal, from
> which the instrument naturally selects the resonant frequency and produces a
> beautiful response. Thus musicians use random processes to produce music,
> and yet are intimately involved in it.
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> Iain
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