Re: Marriage is under fire!!

From: Jonathan Kirwan (jkirwan_at_easystreet.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:32:35 GMT

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:32:46 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@easystreet.com>
wrote:

>Using independent theory as one key element allows the science process to
>operate, in many ways, just like evolution itself does in nature. (Where
>"random mutation modifying genetics" is replaced by "imaginative insights
>leading to deductive theory" and "natural selection and rejection based on
>relative success at passing on specific genetics" is replaced by "theory
>selection and rejection based on experimental result."

That is... new, independent ideas are the source of grist for the grindstone of
science experiment to either destroy or else allow to continue for another shot
at the grindstone, another day. Just as new mutations are the source of grist
for the grindstone of natural selection to either destroy or else allow to
continue for another cycle of life. Experimental result can destroy wrong
theory in the current context of more prosaic theory and result, but it cannot
ever prove correct ones for all time. Just as natural selection can only
destroy unsuccessful mutations in the current context of the natural
environment, but cannot ever make life that is guaranteed to survive for all
time.

Kind of poetic, really.

Jon

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