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Author Topic:   Hoyle's Mathmatics of Evolution
Dr Jack
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Message 6 of 18 (178838)
01-20-2005 4:34 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by RAZD
01-19-2005 11:31 PM


Re: mathematics is a model of reality and not reality
take the (legend?) story of the engineer that calculated that bees cannot fly.
this story is humorous to most people because it shows how 'stupid' those engineers are, because he is obviously mistaken.
Off topic, I know, but I cannot let this one fly... what actually happened was the engineer demonstrated that Bees could not fly according to the understood principles of how planes fly and thus concluded that bees use a different method of flight. Good science. Good use of maths.
I actually took a course on the Mathematics of Evolution while at University, I don't recall having covered what Hoyle is talking about but I'd be willing to bet many shiny pennies that his Model does not match up to the reality of how evolutionary theory predicts things happen.

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