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- From: randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <RANDOLPH.92Nov15125813@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:58:13 GMT
- References: <1e3lqaINNadv@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
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- In-reply-to: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU's message of 14 Nov 1992 19:59:06 GMT
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- Randolph looks troubled. "Oh, my--you do sound like my younger self."
- He raps an imaginary cane on the floor and rasps, "listen here, sonny
- boy," then dissolves into laughter, "NOT."
-
- "Scientists constantly change their rules for the universe--why
- shouldn't god? When scientists discard one model of truth--paradigm
- --for another, they lose the ability to predict some things, gain the
- ability to predict others. We hope that the new model is more useful
- and accurate and yet there is no simple convergence to universal
- truth. There may be no convergence even if there are rules--a whole
- range of results in mathematical logic show that there is no certain
- way of deducing rules even when they exist.
-
- Randolph looks very sober for a moment. "I think you, personally,
- are afraid of change, as I am, and therefore the only god you will
- allow is one who makes and follows rules.
-
- "Well, everyone must believe in something, I suppose. Mike, I believe
- I'll have another glass of wine. :-) Buy you a drink, Speaker?"
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