God, Man and Physics

Discovery Institute ^ | 18 February 2002 | David Berlinski

[longshadow]

Audacious bttt

[Southack]

No, you didn't cover the comments above on any other thread. Nice dodge, though.

[Southack]

"What do you know, I found the More monkeys document. You are right. (Write it down, guys.)

I don't know that he has properly estimated the number of instances of "monkeys" in the universe, however. What is the current estimate of the Drake equation, for example? I also do not accept other parts of the document, but that will have to wait until I get home from work to explain fully." - ThinkPlease

Man, you've been at work for a WHILE now!

[ThinkPlease]

The only thing I can figure is Southack is an account by committee, or he's suffering from completely memory loss, otherwise he would not be whinging about a discussion that he is still currently participating in on this subject on another thread.

Exhibit #442.

Exhibit #562

Whatever.

[Southack]

"I don't know that he has properly estimated the number of instances of "monkeys" in the universe, however. What is the current estimate of the Drake equation, for example? I also do not accept other parts of the document, but that will have to wait until I get home from work to explain fully." - ThinkPlease"

Nice dodge, but you still haven't explained (on any thread) why you disagree with Watson's estimate on the quantity of monkeys. Nor have you explained any other area of Watson's math document that you supposedly disagree with.

[Southack]

More time passes...

[desertcry]

Indeed! But if all terrestial living things are based on base 4 coding, in IMHO this does not necessarily suggests that all living things in the Universe are limited to a base 4 code. For all we know more advanced being in some corner of the Universe could be a base 6,8,.... How humbling, and profound, and thus God is indeed infinite.

[realpatriot71]

For all we know, the Deity's concern may have lain with the pleasurable intricacies of nucleosynthesis, the emergence of life proving, like so many other things, an inadvertent consequence of his tinkering

Bwahahaha! Did you guys ever read any Douglas Adams? Well, at the end his forth book in the "hitchhiker" series, he spells out God's last message to his creation:

Sorry for all the inconveinence . . .

[desertcry]

Your Post#7, very nicely put, thanks.it's about the journey..... Yes indeed, for only the arrogant can say that he/she has complete control of the journey's end. Suicide is an ultimate expression of arrogance, or cowardice. It is the quality of the journey that counts, and leave to the almighty the final destination.

[Texaggie79]

Yo, I came up with this MAD philosophy, yo...

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home?

[Southack]

"I don't know that he has properly estimated the number of instances of "monkeys" in the universe, however. What is the current estimate of the Drake equation, for example? I also do not accept other parts of the document, but that will have to wait until I get home from work to explain fully." - ThinkPlease

You still haven't explained (on any thread) why you disagree with Watson's estimate on the quantity of monkeys. Nor have you explained any other area of Watson's math document that you supposedly disagree with.

[Southack]

Still waiting...