From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:ec23o19snm5s5ptmv7ae7rve4dm9l1hcch{at}4ax.com...

> 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.

Ok yes but unpredictability is a function of intelligence (or lack thereof)
it is not a function of the universe.

> 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).

Intelligence is an organizing force, the counterweight to Chaos?

Geo.

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