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Article #31732Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Daniel Packman
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:10
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:10
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In article <s8idnUuM5tschE3cRVn-tA@comcast.com>, Chas <chasclementsSPOOF@comcast.net> wrote: >"Daniel Packman" <pack@eos.ucar.edu> wrote >> There is no scientific requirement to have either "an excuse" >> or "an accident". Intent is not a scientific concept. Dealing >> with natural laws is the realm of science. Pondering over the >> meaning of having natural laws is philosophy or religion. >A child can tell the difference between a sound made by intent or by >accident- scientists can't tell the difference, and that's one of their >prime failures. Nice assertion. Have you done extensive study with a fart machine at parties? My own numbers show that both adults and children can be fooled. >Science can't tell the difference between a ream of paper and the works of >Shakespeare; tin cans rolling down a hill and Mozart, a spill on the floor >and Van Gogh. You seem to be listing intrinsically non-quantitative events. Actually, much work has been done in quantifying styles of music and even generating plausible new works in the same style. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/240642.stm >And, if you don't speak to the question, you get no useful answer. No, not to *that* question. -- Daniel Packman NCAR/ACD pack@ucar.edu
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