From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 11 22:29:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA16532 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA16526 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07179; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:28:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02195; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:28:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:28:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711120628.XAA02195@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Nate Williams , Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) In-Reply-To: References: <199711120532.WAA01955@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > The entire history of science is the conversion of "chaotic" systems > > > > > into predictable systems. > > You can equally well say that the history of science is the process of > realizing how little is controlled by purpose, by intent, by "someone" > pulling the strings....and how much is accidental, arbitrary; Huh? Far from it. The very 'order' in all of nature can be construed as a wonderful design by someone/something greater than our ability to understand. But, that takes Faith. In my opinion, it takes a whole lot less Faith to believe there is some design to what we call life than it all happened by pure accident or chance. Nate