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Subatomic Darwinism
blamanj writes "In the beginning was Darwinism, then there arose Social Darwinism, now physicists are proposing Quantum Darwinism. According to the Nature article: "If, as quantum mechanics says, observing the world tends to change it, how is it that we can agree on anything at all? Why doesn't each person leave a slightly different version of the world for the next person to find?
Because, say the researchers, certain special states of a system are promoted above others by a quantum form of natural selection, which they call quantum darwinism. Information about these states proliferates and gets imprinted on the environment. So observers coming along and looking at the environment in order to get a picture of the world tend to see the same 'preferred' states."."
The parent ain't a troll, but it looks like there is a jihadist out there with mod points.
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
For fucks sake, a day is a fucking day.
Geez ... hostile much? Ever heard of a parable? If you were going to descrbe the scientific version of creation to a pre-industrial society, how would you put it? I think the Biblical version does a reasonable job of describing creation in a pre-industrial, pre-higher-mathematical way. How do you explain the Big Bang to people who don't have a concept for more than hundreds or (maybe) thousands of years? People who don't understand celestial mechanics and who are thousands of years away from such understanding?
It turns out that you're more of a Biblical literalist than most radical Creationists I've met! I'm not used to encountering people who disagree with the Bible while at the same time insisting that the only possible interpretation of the book is the most literal one.
You also assume that the Bible that we have today -- published in English -- says the same thing as earlier versions in the original languages. You assume that the translations were accurate and did not expand or subtract from any of the concepts or stories or discussions.