If there was no need, it wouldn't have happened, scientifically. The question can be refined: Of the possible responses to need, why did one/some occur and not another/others? wc
----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, November 12, 2012 11:02:24 AM Subject: Re: Error and quality On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:04 PM, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote: > It is reasonable to say that in Nature there are no errors. > > Your question really is, Why do people find error in Nature? I was thinking of "error" in the scientific or mathematical sense of variation, more than in the sense of wrong judgment. Perhaps I should call it "differentiation": how did hydrogen become helium? How did one become two? Of the infinity of numbers, there is only one "1," one undifferentiated unity. There is no diversification in one, no differentiation. But when there are two, there can be differences. As I ponder this idea, I wonder if there was an original "need" for diversification. The Big Bang produced many entities. How was it that they were different rather than all being identical, all being the same kind, all charmed quarks or Higgs bosons or other identical elemental particles? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
