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Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:58:40 GMT
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John Neal wrote:
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > That "universe is chaotic and we don't understand it all" bit is a bit
> > stale. Yes. we do not understand everything there is to understand, but
> > so what? No amount of praying and waiting for revelation produced the
> > light bulb. That was science.
> >
> > Your news is old news, don't bother stopping the presses.
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> What I was talking about was Chaos Theory which, if I understood Dr. Malcolm in
> Jurassic Park correctly, is the *current* scientific rage.
So we're getting our information from movies, eh John? Well, *here's* a
news flash for you... Movies make stuff up. You'd be better off with
Scientific American.
(- sincerely, your pal Mr. Science)
Kidding aside, what chaos theory says is that most real systems are
complex enough and have enough free variables in them that it is harder
to model them than we once thought, and in a lot of systems very small
perturbations in initial input produce large perturbations in the final
system state.
It does NOT say that things can't be predicted, or that things happen
completely randomly. Even at the quantum level when we speak of
probability instead of certainty, there are still laws in operation and
useful predictions that can be made.
--
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