Chance and Necessity

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Bailey wrote:
  
quien sabe?  I would agree @ first glance...my take would
be something like "the invisible clockmaker" or something, you
know, the Enlightenment (deist? theist?) God who set everything
in motion according to immutable rules and it proceeds thusly...

the sort of God suggested by Newtonian physics, that is, creating
a spacetime in which, the cliche goes something like "if you knew
enough data at any given moment and applied the rules, you could
both predict and backtrack accurately"

which even Newton probably would hesitate to apply to
the whole universe,
   
  MK---Yes, the Enlightenment God who set everything in motion
  thru many scientists to the present day who do argue the " if enough data
  and the laws of physics. etc....'" which Pynchon will not believe....
   
  I posted the 'chance' as an element in the universe notion on the P-wiki.

       
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