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To: neocon
bump for ELS's last

That would be #98, not #100.

102 posted on 03/06/2002 4:33:49 PM PST by ELS
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To: ELS, Askel5
Thanks, I'll try to make time to read that thread.

I've got an outline for the paper worked out, and the first non-introductory section is a discussion of the epistemological limitations of the scientific method, mathematics (including Gödel's theorem), and theology with an aside on the Galileo controversy. I'm basically arguing for the Scholastic viewpoint and against logical positivism. Then it's on to Newtonian determinism, (special) relativistic non-simultaneity, quantum uncertainty, the Copenhagen interpretation and Bell's theorem, relating all these to contemporaneous theological developments. I'll wind up with a few words on evolutionary biology, just because.

I'll try to put in enough math, showing the relativistic invariance of Maxwell's equations and deriving the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, to give a flavor of the major results, but there's just no way to do a proper development in a short period of time and a small number of pages. It won't be a polished thesis or anything, more a means of stimulating discussion from which I hope to learn from those more learned than I.

It's been a long time since I taught physics, though, so I'm hoping I can somehow keep the verbal presentation from boring everyone to tears or leaving them utterly befuddled.

BTW, I guess my suggested name for the group, Ecclesiam peregrinantem, was a dud, huh?

105 posted on 03/06/2002 9:53:07 PM PST by neocon
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