Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: pathway can be inconsistent with good theory, and theory can predict certain general aspects of life's geologic pattern) But the actual pathway is strongly underdetermined by our general theory of life's evolution This point needs some belaboring as central yet widely misunderstood aspect of the world's complexity. Webs and chains of historical events are so intricate so imbued with random and chaotic elements so unrepeatable in encompassing such a multitude of unique (and uniquely interacting) objects, that standard models of simple prediction and replication do not apply History can be explained, with satisfying rigor if evidence be adequate after sequence of events unfolds but it cannot be predicted with any precision beforehand Pierre Simon Laplace, echoing the growing and confident de ...
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