Re: what do physicists think about fate or destiny

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
> Why ask a physicist?  What the laws of physics have to say about 
> predetermination are speculative at best.  More important are things like 
> the culture you grew up in, the ideas you've been exposed to, the 
> resources available to you, and what you as a person can make of it.
> 
> Whatever "fate" means, if you think your life is predetermined but you 
> still have no idea what the future holds for your or anybody else, what 
> good is that doing anyone?  Skinner didn't prove that your future behavior 
> is uniquely and unavoidably determined by your previous experiences, he 
> just said it was.

The reason i ask physicists is that I somehow have more trust in the
intellectual offspring of galileo than i have in the spiritual legacy
of the church that persecuted him...