Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Doctor Stochastic; AndrewC; gore3000
I'd like to offer this prediction...

The algorithms, methods and numbers may first arrive from the theoretical physics, mathematics or information theory disciplines, without their having any particular intention to impact the theory of biological evolution.

Stability and Size of Galaxies from Planck’s Constant (PDF)

Max Tegmark - Is ``the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory?

Jürgen Schmidhuber - Algorithmic Theories of Everything

Iaian Stewart - Theories of Everything

Stephen Wolfram - A New Kind of Science


1,032 posted on 12/03/2002 11:45:37 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1012 | View Replies ]


To: Alamo-Girl
The algorithms, methods and numbers may first arrive from the theoretical physics, mathematics or information theory disciplines, without their having any particular intention to impact the theory of biological evolution.

You may be right, for one thing biology has been politicized to a great extent by evolutionists and there is not much room there for honest discussion. These are nevertheless scientific questions which need to be applied to all the sciences. The irony is that while the materialists claim that science is not allowed to consider anything which is not material as an answer, science itself, the process, is non-materialistic, and completely denies randomness. While the word algorithm comes from math, its use has been expanded to other disciplines and can be used correctly to mean 'a rule or procedure for solving a problem'. And that is what science is all about - discovering the rules and procedures of nature. Experiments in a sense are the same thing, they show the rules and procedures of these discoveries.

The product of science is thus information. Information is totally absent of material substance. Yet while materialists deny the existence of anything which is non material, they embrace science as proof that nothing outside material entities exist!

BTW - I am sure that many have thought that the sentence 'In the beginning was the Word' was somewhat allegorical or a poetic construction. My guess is that if we ever do find the algorithm of everything (which I doubt we will in this life) we will find out that the sentence is literally correct.

1,067 posted on 12/04/2002 9:11:12 PM PST by gore3000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1032 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson