[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Stefano Mori]

On 2007-Aug-16, at 22:36, mmalc crawford wrote:

> On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:09 AM, David Cake wrote:
>
>> 	Again - scientific debate continues on details, actual
>> scientific consensus on big question unlikely to chance.
>>
> Hasn't anyone mentioned evolution here yet?
> Maybe I did at some stage?
>
> Unfortunately, Stefano is sounding very like one of the ID types who's
> trying to say the whole Darwinian theory is wrong because biologists
> are in disagreement about specific details, or because they revise
> part of the evolutionary tree, or because a particular "missing link"
> hasn't been found... I'm sure irreducible complexity will come along
> at some point...

Well I'm sorry that you see it that way.

I've repeated myself several times to bring focus to the problem of  
making forecasts, but y'all don't seem to notice this little point.

It's as if those Darwinian biologists came up with a forecast that in  
a thousand years we will become dumb mutants and so we must start  
instituting controlled breeding programmes to avert disaster, just  
because their models predict it.

And you Malc are not allowed to breed as you've got the wrong genes,  
and David meanwhile has the genes for breeding so we need him to take  
20 Thai chicks.

Well, what are y'all waiting for... the models have spoken.

People just underestimate how difficult it is to predict the future  
behavior of complex systems.

Stefano