Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:58:47 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <4C19F70A-C38F-11D6-8C5E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20020907110109.T44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
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On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 04:10 PM, Neal E. Westfall wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: >>>> The scientific method never verifies, it only falsifies, so asking >>>> that something be empirically verified, whether it be the old theory >>>> of evolution, the current theory of puctuated equilibria, or that >>>> gravity is related to the curvature of space, is asking for the >>>> impossible. Science can only demonstrate the invalidity of ideas, >>>> not their validity. >>> >>> Okay, then lets stop pretending that creation is "unscientific" while >>> evolution is "scientific". Neither one of them can be falsified, so >>> either *both* of them are scientific, or neither of them are. You >>> can't have your cake and eat it too. If you claim an explanation >>> must also be "naturalistic", I charge you with providing a >>> justification for such arbitrariness. >> >> I guess we can keep on calling the currently accepted scientific >> theory "evolution", even though that's not the correct name for it. >> >> With that in mind, the methods you use judge one theory vs. another >> are: >> >> 1) Are the theories predictive? > > Evolution is not, as it relies on chance. Chance, by definition, > is unpredictable. > If you take a step back far enough those random chances become very predicateable. Read up on chaos theory and how randomness works. > > --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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