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To: Alamo-Girl
If you haven't already, please read Rosen's book Life Itself and if you still feel that way after his extensive "proofs" then let's flesh it out.

Why is "proofs" in quotes?

529 posted on 10/01/2009 1:51:09 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic; betty boop
Why is "proofs" in quotes?

Rosen was both a mathematician and a scientist.

Proofs apply to mathematics but do not apply to science, i.e. any scientific theory is subject to falsification.

In Life Itself Rosen uses the formality of mathematics both in proving why the Newtonian model is inadequate for biology and then in constructing a relational model which is adequate for biology.

Because the book like the author has one foot on each side, I put the word proof in quotes.

545 posted on 10/01/2009 10:23:15 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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