From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news::
> My theory is that the future is 100% predictable but because of the
> complexity of the universe and our limited intelligence we have about as
> much chance at predicting it as a cow.

An excellent attitude, except I think you mean that we should continue
TRYING to understand the universe, and we will figure out more, but we are
almost certainly never going to understand it all, so there will be some
unpredicatable events.

I think people here have tired of my lectures on evolution, so I will only
briefly point out that humans are intelligent enough to predict an eclipse
only because we acquired intelligence for other purposes (e.g. learning to
communicate vocally was very useful, and gradual increases in intelligence
that aided such communication would be rewarded in each generation).

John

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