{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 71b/1918-02-18/p082","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can see how something like the Kant-Laplace theory comes about. I have often mentioned this before and will only refer to it today because it sheds light on our present-day field. Whether he is an astronomer or a geologist, man tries to guess from what is happening before his senses at the present time, from a calculation, what happened millions of years ago. One can do this without making the slightest mistake against any scientific laws; one can calculate a state of the earth that occurs after millions of years. Unfortunately, however, one is in the following case. For example, if you calculate from heredity what the human stomach goes through in the course of one, two, seven years, what changes it undergoes in three hundred years, you proceed in the same way as a geologist or astronomer, in the same way as the one who put forward the Kant-Laplace hypothesis. We can calculate in the same way as for the small changes that take place in the constitution of the stomach, what the stomach must have been like 300 years ago; only it had not yet come into existence at that time. In the same way, we can calculate what this stomach will be like in 300 years. The calculation may be correct, but the result is untenable. The calculation based on the changes in the rock can be correct and it can be scientifically established that the earth was in this or that state millions of years ago; only at that time the earth had not yet come into existence and will no longer exist in the millions of years that can be calculated by the same method, because it has inner laws of life through which it has developed out of the spiritual and will in turn develop back into it like man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Revelations of the Unconscious in the Life of the Soul from the Spiritual-scientific Point of View","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-02-18","location":null,"word_count":307,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-02-18/p082","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180218p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Man rechne sich zum Beispiel aus aus der Vererbung, was der Magen des Menschen im Verlaufe von ein, zwei, sieben Jahren durchmacht, welche Veränderungen er in dreiBig Jahren durchmacht, man verfahre gerade so wie der Geologe oder Astronom, gerade so wie der Aufsteller der Kant-Laplace’schen Hypothese verfährt. Man kann rechnen nach derselben Methode wie nach den kleinen Veränderungen, die sich vollziehen in der Konstitution des Magens, wie der Magen gewesen sein muss vor 300 Jahren; nur hat er dazumal noch nicht gelebt. Ebenso kann man berechnen, wie dieser Magen sein wird nach 300 Jahren. Die Rechnung kann richtig sein, was herauskommt, ist ein Unhaltbares. 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