From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 5:14:32 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 25D8237B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B993F43E6A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0003.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.3] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17pSrN-0007aj-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:14:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3D8084D8.29DEE733@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:13:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lee Cc: nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020911140623.A45696-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <3D7FC334.396A9F12@mindspring.com> <20020911214015.51f915a0.yid@softhome.net> <3D7FF31D.642948C9@mindspring.com> <20020912045213.0915f496.yid@softhome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Joshua Lee wrote: > > > > > Yeah, and the concept of one hand clapping is perfectly rational > > > > > to an irrationalist. So what? > > > > > > > > It's perfectly rational to the rationalist, as well. It is a > > > > proof of the incompleteness theorem. > > > > > > Interesting... could you elaborate? > > > > Not without starting another thread... 8=O. > > I'd actually welcome a new thread, this thread is getting quite boring. Yes, it is; but the philosophical ramifications of the incompleteness theorem are what started the current thread. Well, that and Dave Hayes pype, poking it with a stick any time it looked to be settling down, just for the sheer joy Dave gets from being a luddite and making people waste effort that could be better spent on things he opposes. Luckily, this thread has not taken a lot of attention or time to type, from my perspective; since it's started, I've also written about 13,000 lines of code. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message