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Thread #132437 Message #3000316
Posted By: TheSnail
05-Oct-10 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: True Test of an Atheist
Subject: RE: BS: True Test of an Atheist
Steve Shaw
I was only trying to be honest. Science tries not to deal in certainties.
Rather different from earlier pronouncements like -
Anyone who thinks there's anything random in evolution doesn't understand evolution. Not in the slightest. The word doesn't belong in any discussion of evolution. and - A mutation is miscopying of heritable material. If you want to demonstrate that any such miscopying is random you're going to have to show that there was no cause.
You go one to say -
in the cases we're talking about so it's impossible to state that the outcomes are non-deterministic.
No. If you are going down to the subatomic level it is not just possible to say that the outcomes are non-deterministic, it is mandatory.
Haha, you asked me to look up unpredictable.
You got me bang to rights there Steve. Clearly invalidates everything I've said. Have you looked up random? If you can't be bothered, do you agree with TIA's definition -
mathematical meaning is: not deterministically predictable, but following a probability distribution?