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To: Kevin OMalley
The problem I have is with the haps side of evo/abio creeping into...

What's "the haps side" mean?

26 posted on 09/19/2005 4:55:35 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Seeing What's Next by Christensen, et.al.)
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To: jennyp

It is something I posted previously:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475252/posts
Do you believe in accidentalism? (Creation vs. evolution)

I have a philosophical bias against what I call the "haps": The root word of Happen, Happy, Happenstance is hap, which is another word for luck. I heard it over & over again in NON-SCIENCE classes that we got here by chance, we evolved by chance, and that it was "proven" science. I presently think the evo haps stuff is baloney, the abiogenesis haps stuff is even more baloney, and that all of this stuff belongs in a philosophy class, where there is a constant dialog about inductive pursuits, what you call "something we don't know is true".


42 posted on 09/19/2005 5:39:24 PM PDT by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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To: jennyp
What's "the haps side" mean?

Maybe those with only a single set of chromosomes?

80 posted on 09/19/2005 7:28:46 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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