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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (87741)	12/31/2000 7:40:14 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

For a contrary view, see Don't ya just love cosmetology?...:0) I would tend to agree that we're traveling from chaos back to order. From entropy to the creation of matter out of quarks, atoms, and molecules, all being pulled together by gravitional forces that eventually find us all being inexorably pulled into the giant black hole that lies at the center of our galaxy. And then this giant cosmic pit, where order and chaos are indistinguishable, will be sucked into an even larger black hole. . . . . . (btw, 10 points to anyone who finds the secret malapropism.. :0) Regards, Ron

To: Don Lloyd who wrote (87741)	12/31/2000 7:49:36 PM
From: Walkingshadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Thanks, Don. Looks to be a completely fascinating read. By profession and interest both, I am deeply involved in science. Not Science. I do not delude myself that there is anything particularly special about science which somehow renders it some unassailable descriptor of an objective reality. The primary difference between science and, say, dreaming, or speculation, or imagination lies in its formalism and discipline, not any inherent validity, or closer approximation of what we like to call external reality. As the review to that book implies, that formalism and discipline itself can limit science, and alter its course in ways which subvert the very thing it seeks---the primary asset becomes the major flaw. As always, JMVHO.............YMMV Walkingshadow