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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (591897)	7/17/2004 2:21:52 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Very interesting, thanks Tide. (It's been quite a while since I've read Stranger in a Strange Land. It's all sort of coming back to me now. Remember the short popular craze for a while, of using the term 'Grok'?) As to 'no-explanation of random chance'... I'd argue two points: One, that it is very hard to find true randomness expressed at the most fundamental levels of matter, or of nature for that matter. The popular conception of 'random chaos' is slowly giving way to the realization, taken from Chaos Theory, that many examples of 'chaos' actually express some organizing patterns, and are not truly 'random'. Two, I believe that a fuller conception of what can be accomplished by even the most incremental of changes over the immensely vast expanses of time that have elapsed in this universe has begun to affect the public consciousness. When we are discussing billions of years, not even millions, we are confronted with expanses of time that human comprehension cannot truly encompass.