| "You may consider this the creative acts of God or just the natural course of existence as scientist like Gould support. But either way science no longer believes anything takes place by chance or random events. The dice are loaded. "
Unfortunately, for your argument, is the fact that the field of "stochasitic differential equations" is an extremely important (relatively new) field in math and the sciences. Probabalistic arguments are crucial to the endeavor to understand certain pheomenona. Quantum mechanics (a venerable science) is almost entirely probabilty based, for example. So, a great deal of science deals with probability based theory.
A mathematical modeler can easily rig the hypotheses (axioms of the modeling) to suit the outcomes desired by the modeler. So, mathematical models must always be subjected to close scrutiny. But this is not easy, since there is no "lab" in which to test the predictions, and the arheological/geological evidence is vague and subject to much interpretation. It is clear, even from the conversation on this board, that many people have their "agenda" or "faith" that they have to argue for. So, be aware of this in all discussions. By the way, chaos is an intriguing mathematical fad, but not without its applications.
I have been to many seminars on cellular level biomechanics/biochemistry and have attended graduate level courses in bio-engineering (on the cellular level), and I can tell you that, when you become aware of the (unbelievable!!) intricate way in which cells and the human body react on a cellular level, you will become increduluous with the complexity and subtlety. You will wonder how a multi-step process could possibly evolved, when all steps are needed for the completion of the task: a deletion of any step would be counter productive. You will begin to wonder how such an elaborate and delicate dance of interwoven activities and chemical balances and resoponses could possibly arisen "by chance".
I tend to agree with Warren, who makes many good points. DNA coding/decoding must go on incessantly in the cell. One must surely be in complete awe of the complexity and "well designed" nature of life, the more one knows about it. How life got to this point is the question that is bedeviling, and cannot be answered by mere mortals, as I see it. |