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To: Dimensio

Yes, it does. What is your best explanation for the fact that the more we learn the more complex everything becomes?


72 posted on 07/30/2004 12:51:25 PM PDT by RUCKUS INC. ("Wow, what a crapweasel." - Frank_Discussion)
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To: RUCKUS INC.

Ummmm, If the ultimate answer is "God did it" shouldn't everything get simpler the more we learn???


74 posted on 07/30/2004 12:55:21 PM PDT by null and void (Freedom is written with blood on the streets, not with ink in congress.)
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To: RUCKUS INC.
What is your best explanation for the fact that the more we learn the more complex everything becomes?

Everything about becomes more complex precisely because we have learned more about it. It's question of epistemology, not ontology. Your argument that complexity means that there must be a designer is reminiscent of liberals claiming that complexity necessitates a head-in-the-sand approach to everything.

75 posted on 07/30/2004 12:59:44 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>stupid blob</A>)
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To: RUCKUS INC.
What is your best explanation for the fact that the more we learn the more complex everything becomes?

Everything about the universe becomes more complex precisely because we have learned more about it. It's question of epistemology, not ontology. Your argument that complexity means that there must be a designer is reminiscent of liberals claiming that complexity necessitates a head-in-the-sand approach to everything.

76 posted on 07/30/2004 1:00:12 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>stupid blob</A>)
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To: RUCKUS INC.
What is your best explanation for the fact that the more we learn the more complex everything becomes?

The more we learn, the more information we have about how the world works, so naturally we have to come up with more and more complex explanations for it all.

I don't see how that relates to a "Creator".
79 posted on 07/30/2004 1:08:36 PM PDT by Dimensio (Join the Monthly Internet Flash Mob: http://www.aa419.org)
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To: RUCKUS INC.
that the more we learn the more complex everything becomes?

Not at all!!! For example, we used to believe that the force that drove a compass needle, the force that destroys your house when it's hit by lightning, and the force that presses back against you when you push on a wall were all different things. Now as science has advanced and we've learned more, we learned that all of these things (as well as many others) were simply different manifestations of the same thing, namely the electromagnetic force. Furthermore, we learned that all of these phenomena can be described by a set of FOUR EQUATIONS. In fact, adding the equation for universal gravitation, we've learned that most of the phenomena of human experience can, in principle, be described by FIVE equations. The entire history of scientific inquiry has been one of simplification and unification, not one of increasing complexity. It may seem, to a non-scientist, that things are more complex, but to scientists this is not the case.

168 posted on 08/02/2004 7:00:29 AM PDT by stremba
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