> Perhaps you have greater faith in the human calculator than do I.
I'm an engineer. We have "faith" in figures because the proper application of them gives repeatable and reliable results. There is very little room in engineering for "faith" in the religious sense. If your upper stage has an engine with a specific impulse of 450 seconds and you have a mass ratio of 90%, it does not matter how much faith you have... you will not generate more than 10.16 kilometers per second of delta v in free space.
Biology is nothing more than *extremely* complex physics and chemistry. The equations are horribly complex, vastly detailed and poorly understood; we do not as yet have the knowledge to calculate the biological world with the accuracy we can for, say, a bridge. Nevertheless, we have enough of the math down that we can figure out some of the basic trends.
Gods, on the other hand, cannot be calculated.
Sure, and when you apply Halpin-Tsai equations to determine ply in composite materials properly, you don't kill operators at molding machines, you don't endanger the end user of such products, and on the whole, you make the world a better place with plastics.
So?
I've been in engineering, and practical applications of engineering, all my work life, and I have yet to find a single engineer who is able to answer the question: Why?
Who, when, what, where, how, are well within their realm. But why is in the realm of God. If someone is bound to the four walls of the senses, it's impossible to even know how to ask the question: Is there weather outside?
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