[MD] The Relativist's journey

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Hi Marsha,

Yes many hold evolution to be of high value.  Being involved in science I question it in the same way you question the reality of the reification of concepts.  That is all I am trying to say, for scientific scrutiny is fitting data within a conjectured model.  Until a better model comes around evolution is the way things exist.  My main thrust was to question what does this theory do for us.

Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
Mark

On Dec 7, 2011, at 5:12 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

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> Mark,
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> As I said I find the nature of all patterns far more fascinating than evolution in particular.  But let me this about evolution.  It has, in general, held up under scientific scrutiny.  I have restated the idea that the way to approach the UltimateTruth is through proving something false.  Well, the scientific method isn't perfect, it has become far too social, but still it does try to test its hypotheses by proving them false.  So as patterns go, I find it a high value pattern.  
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> On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:30 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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>> Mark,
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>> I find your question uninteresting.  What is far more interesting to me is the nature of static quality: all patterns.  That patterns, whether inorganic, biological, social or intellectual, are conditionally co-dependent, impermanent, ever-changing and conceptualized.  That 
>> static quality exists in stable patterns relative to other patterns.  Patterns depend upon innumerable causes and conditions (patterns), depend upon parts and the collection of parts (patterns), depend upon conceptual designation (patterns). Patterns have no independent existence.  Further, these patterns represent "what works" depending upon on an individual's static pattern of life history. 
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>> Why I hold evolution to be a high value intellectual static pattern of value is not a significant question, imho. 
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>> Marsha 
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>> Marsha 
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:39 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Marsha,
>>> You did not answer my question...  Is this why you consider evolution
>>> to be of high value?
>>> Mark
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>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:46 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>>> Mark,
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>>>> To repeat, it was an excellent story about a journey.
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>>>> Marsha
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>>>> On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:13 PM, 118 wrote:
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>>>>> Hi Marsha,
>>>>> Yes it was.  Does that make the theory of Evolution high value to you?
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>>>>> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
>>>>> Mark
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>>>>> On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:51 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>>>>> Mark,
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>>>>>> I read 'Voyage of the Beagle' by Charles Darwin.  That was an excellent story about a journey.
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>>>>>> Marsha
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>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>>>> On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:38 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Please remember that Darwin's book was titled "ON THE ORIGIN OF
>>>>>>> SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, OR THE
>>>>>>> PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR
>>>>>>> LIFE.
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