Re: Post-Empiricism Science: A little surprised

From: John W Burgeson (jwburgeson@juno.com)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 14:16:11 EDT

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    Moorad posted:>>It is quite inappropriate to compare the science of
    weather forecasting
    with evolutionary theory. What are the equations that underlie
    evolutionary theory? Are they deterministic? There are no such
    equations!>>

    Your argument is not with me, but with John Casti and his book. Read it.
    The presence (or absence) of "equations" is not a necessary factor. I
    know Lord Kelvin asserted otherwise. He was wrong.

    In the science we share, physics, math is, of course, a necessity. But to
    call weather forecsting a science and evolution not a science is, at
    best, a faulty definition. To say they have nothing in common is also
    faulty. IMHO of course.

    Burgy

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