Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Let's have scientific evolutionism too Message-ID: <4590@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 15:09:07 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4590 Posted: Thu Sep 13 15:09:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:19:06 EDT References: <3388@cbscc.UUCP> <7518@unc.UUCP> <697@opus.UUCP>, <1339@qubix.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 13 > According to the ideas of many, "science" cannot allow for supernatural > intervention. (Indeed, if there were whimsical supernatural > intervention, scientists should probably pack up and find other jobs.) Then how come scientists, engineers, and the entire technical community have not only accepted but codified and truly believe in supernatural influence on their work? I refer here, of course, to "Murphy's Law". We all know what it is, that it is definitely true, and that we are all subject to it. All the jokes and humorous corollaries are merely our way of safely treating a basic and profund truth, which would drive us to despair if we treated it seriously -- that all matter and objects are actually at odds with the human mind and its desires. This is probably as good a definition of "evil" as anything ever was.