On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:13 AM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: > > There has been little written on the process of natural selection > itself, except that it may be somewhat random. So random mutation > facing random selection, causes ordered life. In my opinion, any > proclamation of randomness is simply another word for God. If we do > not understand it, we call it random. In this way, the theory has not > evolved either, it is still based on mysticism. >
Platt Exactly. Also, if we do not understand it we call it "emergence." Mark > Oh, one final point on a statement of yours (that I deleted) saying > that nobody in the Academy fears new ideas. I would have to disagree. > There is constant fear that one's own position will be destroyed by a > new idea. New ideas are suppressed much more than they are accepted. > This is a predominant aspect of Academia, in my opinion. It is not > just a bunch of congenial professors having coffee. The competition > is awesome. Groups hold together defending each other. Dissenters > become outcasts. I have seen this. Personally I have always stayed > out of this group behavior. > Platt Then there are those professors who base their course on a book they have written and require their students to buy it, otherwise known as a protection racket. . Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
