Every physicists realizes that predicting the weather, earthquakes etc. are
difficult owing to the intractability of the initial conditions. But none of
this questions deal with questions of origins. The same certainly cannot be
said about questions in biology that deal with origins of life and species
plus the development of more complex species from simpler ones.
Moorad
----Original Message-----
From: Joel Cannon <jcannon@jcannon.washjeff.edu>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: *Physical Constants (fwd)...Lack of predictive power of physics
>
>On Thu 13 Jan 2000 Massie wrote:
>
>>So you admit the lack of predictive power meaning the ability
>>to forcast the next big organism.
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>
>Physics is unable to predict the next big meteor, the next big
>earthquake, or the next big storm except in terms of
>probabilities so the standard may be flawed. (or maybe it is physics
>that is flawed).
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