John J wrote: What's that rule of usenet again? When a thread has stretched to become thin and meaningless, it is inevitable that it eventually becomes punctuated with the words Nazi, Fascist... The specific rule was that if a thread goes on long enough, sooner or later Hitler and the Nazis get mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law At sci.space.history, the law would have been that if the thread went on...

...and the Origin of Life. He was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Herbert A. Simon Award. Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred Stuart Kauffman Abstract "We have lived under the hegemony of the reductionistic scientific worldview since Galileo, Newton, and Laplace. In...

Jerry Kraus wrote: Well, obviously without cities one can't very well have major wars, Day. And, you have very little reason to have them. If everyone's spread out enough, major conflicts are much less likely to arise between people, and there aren't large population concentrations to engage in them. On the other hand, our current "Nightmare" has dramatically increased human life expectancy. Then again, so did Comrade...

On Sep 18, 8:46 pm, Day Brown <daybr...@daybrown.org> wrote: Jerry Kraus wrote: Sounds like an elaborate rationalization of the simple and obvious fact the scientists, currently, haven't the slightest idea what they're doing. How about doing a better job on pragmatic reductionism, solving some real world problems, and not trying to justify scientific incompetence on the basis of a theistic conception of human ...

..., and the Origin of Life. He was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Herbert A. Simon Award. Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred Stuart Kauffman Abstract "We have lived under the hegemony of the reductionistic scientific worldview since Galileo, Newton, and Laplace. In ...

..., and the Origin of Life. He was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Herbert A. Simon Award. Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred Stuart Kauffman Abstract "We have lived under the hegemony of the reductionistic scientific worldview since Galileo, Newton, and Laplace. In this view, ...

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:03:31 -0500, in a place far, far away, John J <nohj@droffats.ten> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: BradGuth wrote: On Sep 17, 4:15 pm, "jonathan" <H...@write.instead.net> wrote: [...] Without his trusty brown-nosed minions (aka Zionist/Nazis), the likes of Hitler couldn't have accomplished 90%% of his world domination plot [...] What's that rule of ...

John J wrote: BradGuth wrote: On Sep 17, 4:15 pm, "jonathan" <H...@write.instead.net> wrote: [...] Without his trusty brown-nosed minions (aka Zionist/Nazis), the likes of Hitler couldn't have accomplished 90%% of his world domination plot [...] What's that rule of usenet again? When a thread has stretched to become thin and meaningless, it is inevitable that it eventually becomes punctuated with the ...

BradGuth wrote: On Sep 17, 4:15 pm, "jonathan" <H...@write.instead.net> wrote: [...] Without his trusty brown-nosed minions (aka Zionist/Nazis), the likes of Hitler couldn't have accomplished 90%% of his world domination plot [...] What's that rule of usenet again? When a thread has stretched to become thin and meaningless, it is inevitable that it eventually becomes punctuated with the words Nazi, Fascist...

..., Evolution, and the Origin of Life. He was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Herbert A. Simon Award. Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred Stuart Kauffman Abstract "We have lived under the hegemony of the reductionistic scientific worldview since Galileo, Newton, and Laplace. In this view, the...