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To: epicure who wrote (84314)	9/14/2008 7:40:53 PM
From: biotech_bull	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 544225

I'm not sure how you can say that- other than accessing the "belief" quadrant. I think we've come a long way from the initial shock of Quantum Mechanics that caused Einstein to exclaim "God doesn't play dice with the Universe!" The fields of Chaos, fractals and complexity have made unpredictability or inability to know with any degree of accuracy a part of Science's lexicon. If one takes a cell biologist - he might be very close to a rudimentary understanding of all the interacting pathways and networks but even with a supercomputer he is not able to integrate the mega-detail both spatially and temporally and account for the myriad tiny variations to make any reasonable prediction. But as any cell biologist will tell you, the tiny cell itself pulls this off effortlessly - the cell "knows" is a familiar phrase. This unpredictability, this gap in the ability of Science is now widely accepted - not only is it a given, it is healthy, even necessary as the study of chaos in cardiac rhythms showed. There is normally a small but definite unpredictable variation to the cardiac rhythm but when this variability disappears and rhythm becomes completely regular and predictable it's a harbinger of death