Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00048)

At 02:46 PM 4/8/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Alexis,
>you say "there are no constancies in nature." I think there are, but within
>limits. Otherwise an American MD couldn't arrive in deepest Africa,
>recognize the belly ache of someone copletely unknown, as probably coming
>from appendicitis, & find the appendix approximately in the spot where he
>supposes it to be when he makes his incision.

Actually Liesel that is not really always true. My medical friends have told
me many times that the appendix is not always where it's supposed to be.
Sometimes it's found on the left. Some people's insides are different, it's
what makes life interesting for medical folks. American and European MD's
are regularly surprised in more exotic climes.
People in Africa and the tropics in general get "belly aches" from the most
fascinating things. some of them quite alive. I repeat, sometimes things
which appear to be both natural and regularly repeatable may be so 95% of
the time but they are never so 100% of the time. For that reason I think it
is safe to say there are no relaible constancies in nature, everything
natural is infinitely variable, only the unnatural, by which I mean
manufactured can be invariable, and that is not invariably true.
>
>Alexis