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To: SJackson
They asked the Republican Candidates if they believe in Evolution.

I thought they should make an analogy: Do you believe in Newton's Laws of motion? Now every physics student will spend at least a year studying classical mechanics. It is a very useful theory. However, Heisenberg essentially proved that it is false in the 1930's.

The Marquis Laplace made the following comment (and he knew classical mechanics as well as anyone).

We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.

He was incorrect.

One should be very, very careful about making sweeping conclusions even based on theories that have great validity.

6 posted on 10/05/2011 5:40:06 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: ALPAPilot

They should ask the Democraps that since they don’t believe in Creationism, why do they believe in Creationism by the state in controlling people’s lives by using the mighty hand of government as a substitute for the hand of God in telling people what to do.


7 posted on 10/05/2011 6:09:39 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: ALPAPilot; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
"However, Heisenberg essentially proved that it [classical mechanics] is false in the 1930's."

You make rather sweeping claims -- with little evidence provided.

Classical mechanics remains a very useful and accurate set of tools -- at least on the macro scale. (Consider the aerodynamic forces acting on your aircraft...) Please explain how Heisenberg negated the major premises of classical mechanics.

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"He [Laplace] was incorrect."

Please explain how/why Laplace (in your opinion) was "wrong". Do you not consider the Creator to fit that description?

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"One should be very, very careful about making sweeping conclusions even based on theories that have great validity."

Read your own "sweeping" claims above -- in light of your own statement.

14 posted on 10/05/2011 6:46:53 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: ALPAPilot
"They asked the Republican Candidates if they believe in Evolution. ..."

Republican candidates should NOT answer these fools according to their folly, but instead, answer them ACCORDING to their folly:

There are several theories of evolution, which one are you referring to?"

17 posted on 10/05/2011 6:54:39 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Obamageddon, Barackalypse Now! Bam is "Debt Man Walking" in 2012 - Rush Limbaugh)
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