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To: metmom
if it isn't a accident (random accident being somewhat redundant), then the only other option is that there was intent.

Not true. Look at the path of a stream. Is it an accident? No, it's heavily constrained by the landscape it flows through. In fact, its path is inevitable, given the nature of the soil, placement of the rocks, and so on. Does that mean there was intent? Did the rock say, "I want this stream to narrow, so I'm going to plunk myself down here"? Did Someone Else put it there so that the stream would narrow? No, the location of the rock is likewise constrained by the forces acting on it--it's not an accident that it wound up in the stream, but its location doesn't demand intent either.

78 posted on 12/03/2009 8:30:38 AM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
Look at the path of a stream. Is it an accident? No, it's heavily constrained by the landscape it flows through. In fact, its path is inevitable, given the nature of the soil, placement of the rocks, and so on.

Modern science tells us there's more to a stream's path than accident.

From “Darwin’s Ghost” by Steve Jones … Pages 213-4

“Streams evolve through a balance of forces. The bed shifts as it erodes one bank and dumps its remains on the other. It returns when its loops are cut off as the water finds a more direct route downhill. Complexity – meandering – is opposed by simplicity, the shortest path to the sea. Raindrop, Meander and Mississippi follow the same rules. Measurements of dozens of rivers, and computer simulations of many more, show that the relationship between their shortest possible path across a plain and their actual length is always the same. It is pi, the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. Each river, whatever its size, goes a little more than three times farther than it needs on its way to the sea.”

91 posted on 12/03/2009 9:54:31 AM PST by OldNavyVet (The source of evil lies in the suspension of rational thought.)
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