> Is the universe relativistic
> or mechanistic (If the first, everything is equal but nothing matters:
If
> the second, nothing is equal and everything has an effect.)
I can't say I've ever heard relativism and equality being linked before.
> Genetics
> says that we are equal (chance combination) and must work to advance
> (competition):
Genetics says many things (I was just talking to him yesterday, as a matter
of fact), but it has never made the claim that all organisms are in any way
"equal".
> The question might be restated: Is there evidence of order in nature;
> and/or, do certain causes have predictable (ordered) effects. I say that
it
> is important to humanity that we can--at least--APPLY an order to
> things...that we can see logic, reason, meaning, purpose, advancement,
etc.
On this last sentence, however, I agree with you completely. Nevertheless,
we should be warry of confusing the order *we apply* to things, for some
inheirant order *in* the thing itself.
-Prof. Tim