for those of you still following along
1)a yabuttal is a Garrison Keillor term
for a Minnesota rebuttal.. 'Yeah... but...'
2)Our friend Rene, as webdrone will no doubt 
point out didn't put chaos and complexity into
the picture. Rene was opposed to chaos:he wanted
determinism, as did many of his contemporaries. 
This approach was stunningly successful for 
centuries, culminating in beautiful theories such as 
Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity. But determinism 
in the sciences was to be severely weakened by ...