The Issue of Chance: Godel\'s Theorem (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Thursday, June 04, 2009, 11:11 (5449 days ago) @ Matt S.
edited by unknown, Thursday, June 04, 2009, 11:24

Matt, I welcome your involvement in this forum, particularly your initial post on the issue of chance, but since then you seem to have been flailing about a bit from one topic to another. It would help plodding thinkers like me if you could stick to one thing at a time! - On Godel's theorem you wrote: - "To show why the theorem doesn't apply to the natural sciences, just note 2 things, that natural science is based on the system of Real numbers (Not natural numbers) ..." - I'm afraid this won't do. Real numbers include the natural numbers, and are in fact more complicated. There is just a countable infinity of natural numbers, but a higher infinity of reals. (ref: Cantor's theorem of the uncountability of the real numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_diagonal_argument) - In fact, although scientists ostensibly use real numbers, in fact they only really use approximate real numbers, since any measurement is only accurate to a certain number of decimal places. It is on this basis that you are right that Godel's theorem doesn't apply. - I'm puzzled why you raised it in the first place! - Edit: I inserted the link.

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GPJ