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To: kjvail

You win. You are not only smarter than us; you are smarter than all the scientists who ever lived. Collect your prize on your way out the door.

But some quantum effects have no local cause, and physics works just fine by assuming there is no cause.

If you assume every event has a cause, you wind up in an infinite regress. Be thankful that science has demonstrated ther is no need to assume that every event has a cause.

You wouldn't have a computer to post with without quantum mechanics.


63 posted on 11/05/2005 8:05:32 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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It appears that folks here do not understand intelligent design. Yes, it has been seized upon by religious folks who see it as a defense of their faith, but the school of thought is rooted entirely in sound science. Specifically, it addresses such fatal flaws in macroevolution as parallel development of indetical features down separate "evolutionary lines;" irreducible complexity (in which a collection of separate novel features have no reason to have been "selected" individually, in that they only provide an advantage when taken as a whole; and the chromosomal barrier for species that reproduce sexually (what does something with a new number of chromosome pairs or different chromosomal configuration of critical genes mate with in order to propagate the "new" species or variant?).

I find the infighting of members of the Christian faith here distasteful. I am also shocked that a person would have his account suspended for questioning papal infallibility in the midst of a series of posts calling into question the theology of others either espousing or rebutting intelligent design. Should I assume that there is a theological bias here, or was there more going on than meets the eye?


67 posted on 11/05/2005 8:17:16 PM PST by kstone
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To: js1138
But some quantum effects have no local cause, and physics works just fine by assuming there is no cause.

Assuming otherwise would lead to results not in accord with experiment.

69 posted on 11/05/2005 8:24:16 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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