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Mandelbrot Fractals vs. Watchmaker Argument - The Atheist Experience #588
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Chat: http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room1.html Atheist Experience Live: http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room2.html Mandelbrot Fractals vs. Watchmaker Argument (The Atheist Experience #588 with Russell Glasser, Tracie Harris & Charity Spiers). Please subscribe to: • http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.YouTube.com/TheAtheistExperience • http://www.YouTube.com/AtheistExperience MANDELBROT FRACTALS/PATTERNS: Although Mandelbrot coined the term fractal, some of the mathematical objects he presented in The Fractal Geometry of Nature had been described by other mathematicians. Before Mandelbrot, they had been regarded as isolated curiosities with unnatural and non-intuitive properties. Mandelbrot brought these objects together for the first time and turned them into essential tools for the long-stalled effort to extend the scope of science to non-smooth objects in the real world. He highlighted their common properties, such as self-similarity (linear, non-linear, or statistical), scale invariance, and a (usually) non-integer Hausdorff dimension. He also emphasized the use of fractals as realistic and useful models of many "rough" phenomena in the real world. Natural fractals include the shapes of mountains, coastlines and river basins; the structures of plants, blood vessels and lungs; the clustering of galaxies; and Brownian motion. Fractals are found in human pursuits, such as music, painting, architecture, and stock market prices. Mandelbrot believed that fractals, far from being unnatural, were in many ways more intuitive and natural than the artificially smooth objects of traditional Euclidean geometry: Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. (Mandelbrot, in his introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature) Mandelbrot has been called a visionary. His informal and passionate style of writing and his emphasis on visual and geometric intuition (supported by the inclusion of numerous illustrations) made The Fractal Geometry of Nature accessible to non-specialists. The book sparked widespread popular interest in fractals and contributed to chaos theory and other fields of science and mathematics. more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot THE WATCHMAKER ARGUMENT is a teleological argument for the existence of God. By way of an analogy, the argument states that design implies a designer. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the analogy was used (by Descartes and Boyle, for instance) as a device for explaining the structure of the universe and God's relationship to it. Later, the analogy played a prominent role in natural theology and the "argument from design," where it was used to support arguments for the existence of God and for the intelligent design of the universe. The most famous statement of the teleological argument using the watchmaker analogy was given by William Paley in 1802. Paley's argument was seriously challenged by Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of natural selection, and how it combines with mutation to improve survivability of a species, even a new species. In the United States, starting in the 1980s, the concepts of evolution and natural selection (usually referred to by opponents as "Darwinism") became the subject of a concerted attack by Christian creationists. This attack included a renewed interest in, and defense of, the watchmaker argument by the intelligent design movement. more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_argument What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas, geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. http://www.atheist-experience.com/ http://www.atheist-community.org/ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-atheist-experience http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/ http://www.nonprophetsradio.com/ http://www.atheist-community.org/donate/ Wiki: http://www.ironchariots.org/ Fan club: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20603369467&ref=ts Cartoons: http://www.atheist-community.org/atheisteve/ E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
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Mandelbrot Fractals vs. Watchmaker Argument - The Atheist Experience #588
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Chat: http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room1.html Atheist Experience Live: http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room2.html Mandelbrot Fractals vs. Watchmaker Argument (The Atheist Experience #588 with Russell Glasser, Tracie Harris & Charity Spiers). Please subscribe to: • http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.YouTube.com/TheAtheistExperience • http://www.YouTube.com/AtheistExperience MANDELBROT FRACTALS/PATTERNS: Although Mandelbrot coined the term fractal, some of the mathematical objects he presented in The Fractal Geometry of Nature had been described by other mathematicians. Before Mandelbrot, they had been regarded as isolated curiosities with unnatural and non-intuitive properties. Mandelbrot brought these objects together for the first time and turned them into essential tools for the long-stalled effort to extend the scope of science to non-smooth objects in the real world. He highlighted their common properties, such as self-similarity (linear, non-linear, or statistical), scale invariance, and a (usually) non-integer Hausdorff dimension. He also emphasized the use of fractals as realistic and useful models of many "rough" phenomena in the real world. Natural fractals include the shapes of mountains, coastlines and river basins; the structures of plants, blood vessels and lungs; the clustering of galaxies; and Brownian motion. Fractals are found in human pursuits, such as music, painting, architecture, and stock market prices. Mandelbrot believed that fractals, far from being unnatural, were in many ways more intuitive and natural than the artificially smooth objects of traditional Euclidean geometry: Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. (Mandelbrot, in his introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature) Mandelbrot has been called a visionary. His informal and passionate style of writing and his emphasis on visual and geometric intuition (supported by the inclusion of numerous illustrations) made The Fractal Geometry of Nature accessible to non-specialists. The book sparked widespread popular interest in fractals and contributed to chaos theory and other fields of science and mathematics. more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot THE WATCHMAKER ARGUMENT is a teleological argument for the existence of God. By way of an analogy, the argument states that design implies a designer. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the analogy was used (by Descartes and Boyle, for instance) as a device for explaining the structure of the universe and God's relationship to it. Later, the analogy played a prominent role in natural theology and the "argument from design," where it was used to support arguments for the existence of God and for the intelligent design of the universe. The most famous statement of the teleological argument using the watchmaker analogy was given by William Paley in 1802. Paley's argument was seriously challenged by Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of natural selection, and how it combines with mutation to improve survivability of a species, even a new species. In the United States, starting in the 1980s, the concepts of evolution and natural selection (usually referred to by opponents as "Darwinism") became the subject of a concerted attack by Christian creationists. This attack included a renewed interest in, and defense of, the watchmaker argument by the intelligent design movement. more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_argument What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas, geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. http://www.atheist-experience.com/ http://www.atheist-community.org/ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-atheist-experience http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/ http://www.nonprophetsradio.com/ http://www.atheist-community.org/donate/ Wiki: http://www.ironchariots.org/ Fan club: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20603369467&ref=ts Cartoons: http://www.atheist-community.org/atheisteve/ E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
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