Hi Platt
thanks for welcoming me back..... Yeah, too many things to do, some simply
beautiful, other boring routine... sorry if I can't read all the posts,
hope I've not missed too much....
Platt:
> Oh, oh. Suddenly we have a "designed" pack of cards to begin with.
> Sucks the wind right out of the experiment demonstrating the creative
> power of "luck" if you ask me, just like those intelligently designed
> computer programs that purport to show how Darwinian evolution works.
> Designed experiments to prove evolution isn't designed are self-
> contradictory.
M:
Actually I have ordered a complete laboratory of genetics at my favorite
biochemical equipment supplier, I've just to convince my wife to free our
kitchen.... Sorry if, for the moment, I just can just use a pack of cards.
Something you are not familiar with, indeed, if you guess that a designed
pack of cards has nothing to do with the power of luck.
The problem is another one. Hey man, I think you are rejecting the whole
scientific building. Take care, it's solid. No one has gone to the sun to
take a bit of hydrogen to demonstrate that the heat comes from a nuclear
fusion transforming H into He. No one has gone to alpha-centauri running at
the speed of light with a chronograph to see if it's true that it's four
light-years from Hearth. Scientists use instruments, designed for that. They
use guinea pigs to test drugs for humans.... As Jonathan writes in his
essay:
" .... the laboratory is science's recording studio. It is isolated to block
out disturbances so we can clearly hear and see the patterns of nature. Once
the patterns are clear, we are better equipped to identify them and enjoy
them outside. "
So, with my limited resources ( a pack of cards ) I can show in simple terms
what is and how it works the genetic drift, that is one of the key points of
a good theory known as evolution.
About the power of luck, let me offer a quote from old P.:
"The term Manito primarily referred to the Supreme Being but also had many
other usages. It was applied to manifestations of skill, fortune, blessing,
luck, to any wondrous occurrence. It connoted any phenomenon that
transcended the run of everyday experience. In other words, Dynamic Quality"
[let me add that the Greeks had the exact translation of Manito: FATE. Un
undefined entity which was superior even to all the powers and intelligences
of all their "defined" gods]
More about teleology in a next post, just a quick point:
> Finally as you may recall. I seek out the paradoxes because
> I think they, like beauty and laughter, get close to fire of truth. So
> I wonder what's the purpose in believing the universe has no
> purpose?
never said universe has no purpose.
Enough for now.
>
> Now aren't you glad to be back again? (-:
>
you bet!
Marco
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