re atheist s views on christianity was re accepting jeesus in your heart in article apr geneva rutgers edu jasons atlastele com jason smith writes in article apr athos rutgers edu kempmp phoenix oulu fi petri pihko writes this is not true science is a collection of models telling us how not why something happens i cannot see any good reason why the why questions would be bound only to natural things assuming that the supernatural domain exists if supernatural beings exist it is as appropriate to ask why they do so as it is to ask why we exist i beg to disagree with the assertion that science is a collection of models scientific models are a game to play and are only as good as the assumptions and measurements if any that go into them as an example i remember when nuclear winter was the big hype in atmospheric science it wasn t long after sagan s admonitions that one of our boys was adding another level of reality into his model of the nuclear winter scenario at erl in boulder he decided to assume that the atmosphere is more like a two dimensional thing than a one dimensional thing he also assumed that it rained and that the winds blow in the real atmosphere on returning to georgia tech he showed a transparency of atmospheric cooling rates according to the year they were generated by the models there was an unmistakable correlation between the age meaning simplicity of assumptions i e remoteness from reality of each model and the degree of cooling whereas sagan s model showed an approximate degree cooling episode the next model in sophistication showed about half that and so on until we got to our boy s model which showed a degree drop if the war happened in the winter and less than a degree drop if it happened in the summer he predicted that when we would include the presence of oceans chemistry the biosphere and other indicators of reality in the models we would probably see even less cooling thus nuclear winter was reduced to even less than a nuclear autumn one might say to a nuclear fizzle to quote from h s yoder the postulated models have become accepted as the reality instead of the lattice of assumptions they are authoritarianism dominates the field and a very critical analysis of each argument is to be encouraged skepticism of the model approach to earth problems is warranted because many key parameters have not been included this statement surely applies equally well to cosmogony only when convincing observational evidence substantiates the modeled results may one suggest that the model may describe the reality just thought i d clear that up before things really got out of hand boundary no teneis que pensar que yo haya venido a traer la paz a la tierra no he venido a traer la paz sino la guerra mateo vulgata latina
