Re: MD On Faith - Improbability ?

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 13:48:36 BST

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    Sorry Scott, don't understand - what mechanistic point am I adding ?
    Ian

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    From: "Scott Roberts" <jse885@earthlink.net>
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    > Ian,
    >
    > .
    > > Why bother ?
    > > In order to have a means of understanding, explaining and predicting,
    and
    > > hopefully influencing outcomes.
    > > (I'm no defender of science or materialism, in the real world.)
    >
    > Why bother adding the mechanistic aspect to it, is what I mean. Selection,
    > yes, is a help to understanding: those SQ that don't work well die out.
    But
    > chance, no, other than the sense that we don't know all that is involved
    in
    > producing new SQ.
    >
    > - Scott
    >
    >
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