From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 1 5: 7:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97E437B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3639043E81 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g81C8Elp001311; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g81C8DqR001310; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:08:13 -0700 From: David Schultz To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dave Hayes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020901120813.GA1227@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Dave Hayes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200208310608.g7V68h128080@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3D707754.1981EA36@mindspring.com> <20020831100938.GA262@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3D71D8E6.71248CEB@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3D71D8E6.71248CEB@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Terry Lambert : > David Schultz wrote: > > Thus spake Terry Lambert : > > > If it's not provable, then it's not true. All things which are > > > true are, at least eventually, provable. > > > > ``This statement cannot be proved.'' You should read Gödel's > > Incompleteness Theorem. ;-) (And yes, I took great pains to > > get the umlaut correct this time.) [...] > We're not talking about correctness, here, we're talking about > truth. 8-). So was Gödel. I'm not sure what you're trying to say---but can you prove it? If I discussed the correctness of such a proof, wouldn't that automatically make it wrong? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message