Author: LorentzLorentz Date: May 20, 2008 10:49
On May 17, 5:53 pm, John W Edser ozemail.com.au> wrote:> r norman _comcast.net> wrote
>Today's Neo Darwinistic
> evolutionary theory establishment is Post Modern because it predicates
> itself on things like probabilities, i.e. something that we can measure
> _but do not understand_. Science is all about understanding in a
> falsifiable way and not just, not understanding.
>
This is false. The use of probability theory is not Post
Modern. Post Modern is the belief that reality is determined by the
collective belief of human beings. It is a belief that scientific
theory is a construct of the human mind. The physical reality behind
properly constructed probabilities exist independent of the collective
human mind.
The misconception described is based on a false tautology with a
partial truth. Yes, we USE a value for probability of an event in the
absence of a deterministic equation for that event. His logic is that
when a deterministic equation is found, the probability value ceases
to mean anything. However, the reality is that the probability STILL ...
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