[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by CraigS

Carl;

This has nothing to do with my 'beliefs' or anything else you have dreamed up.

Yes it has. You have expressed an opinion on the complete and overarching veracity of a subject that despite its applicability in certain areas is still a matter of controversy in others. Not because it's wrong or anything of the sort, but because it has not been found to be applicable.

Originally Posted by CraigS

The 'bandwagon' you allude to, is a perfectly legitimate, supportable branch of mainstream science and has found many areas of diverse applicability.

Whether it's legitimate, mainstream or not is not the issue. The bandwagon is the belief that chaos theory has some magical "uber-influence" and applicability to everything. It's a theory, nothing more or nothing less. It could just as easily be replaced by something else tomorrow and it's not an universally agreed upon subject, despite what you might feel about it.

Originally Posted by CraigS

My role in discussing it, has been purely one of 'carrier-pigeon'.

You do know, they became extinct

Originally Posted by CraigS

An understanding of Chaos Theory does not in any way, eliminate or compromise, any other scientific principles, theorisation, conjecture, principles, etc, etc, (as I have pointed out many times already).

That might be what you write here, but from everything else you've written about it, it would seem to indicate otherwise.

Originally Posted by CraigS

Also, kindly do not speak on my behalf again … I am perfectly capable of expressing myself, when posts are directed at me.

Cheers

I wasn't speaking on your behalf. I was speaking on my own and on what I have read of what you've written. You're only peeved because I am having a go at your position and you don't like it. I'm not doing it to upset you intentionally. I'm doing it to make you think but you seem to have not realised this. Chaos theory is not universally accepted amongst the scientific community, nor is it the last word on anything. Although from some of things you've written here, it's quite reasonable to think that this is what you feel about it. All it is, is just one approach to explaining how things work in those certain areas where it can be applied. If it's to be applied as an universal law/theory, then there has to be evidence saying as much. There isn't, so, the only thing that can be said is that where it's applicable use it. And, until it's found to apply to those previously inapplicable areas, leave it be.

Chaos theory is just a cog in a much larger system and should be applied/viewed as such.