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 ...