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Originally Posted by hackle577  Radiation is the only thing I see that is close to an external force. |
And people with tiny syringes!(dont take to literal) How would we be able to do stuff like genetic manipulation if we could not be a external effect on dna
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Originally Posted by rjwood It seems to me that anything and everything outside human control is random. |
Most things outside human control are not random! And what constitutes 'in our control'? Is a car engine accidentally left somewhere in our control? How about those mirrors on the moon. That is why there are physical laws! Even if it were random, there could be dependencies. (less random one could say, although there is no such thing as a uniform random real variable)
An anthropologist aware of situations similar to our own would see similar/the same physical laws and dependencies, and be able to recognize them. Why would his logic be different?