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- From: scharle@lukasiewicz.cc.nd.edu (scharle)
- Subject: Re: uniformitarianism doesn't rule out catastrophes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.125825.13667@news.nd.edu>
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- References: <schlegel.726906621@cwis^ <206@fedfil.UUCP> <1765@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:58:25 GMT
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- In article <1765@tdat.teradata.COM>, swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) writes:
- ...
- |> The epistemically *correct* formulation - the only one that can be defended as
- |> a valid assumption, nay, a necessary assumption, of science - is the much weaker
- |> formulation that the physical laws that describe the processes operating in
- |> nature have not changed over the past.
- ...
- |> --
- |> sarima@teradata.com (formerly tdatirv!sarima)
- |> or
- |> Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
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- Isn't it true that certain laws of uniformitarianism, so to speak,
- are mathematically equivalent to corresponding conservation laws?
- For example, that the universe is the same over all locations in space
- (isotopy?) is equivalent to the conservation of energy, or that
- uniformity over time is equivalent to conservation of ...? Or are we
- talking about completely different things?
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- Tom Scharle |scharle@irishmvs(Bitnet)
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