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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK

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To: Neocon who wrote (41420)4/2/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
non- teleological
I think I figured it out, Why do I insist that evolution of life on earth is non-directed?


It doesn't come from Darwin or Gould. Their theories may say that direction isn't necessary for change but that don't say direction is not possible. A part of it comes from the idea that if man was designed, why was such a poor job performed. After all, we have bad backs and mental disease. The clincher from me was to look for the mechanism. If there were a great programmer in the sky tweaking things as they go along with a goal in mind, could it be done?
The short answer is that uncertainty and chaos rule it out, if our universe were created (and I can't rule that out) it was done so with properties that defy prediction, even by the all-knowing. That is, of course, unless the universe were completely predictable, as if we were a simulation.
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