From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 17:45:03 EST
allenroy wrote:
>
> This is from my Anonymous friend again:...................................
> Paleomagnetic data is not directly measured by people during the time
> the events happened, and thus subject to interpretation. ...................................
It's usually a good policy not to reply to anonymous correspondents, whether
friendly or not but I make just one comment on the sentence above to show the vacuity of
this whole approach. It's just a variation on the tired old "we can't observe the past
so have to rely on revelation argument." Of course the data is "subject to
interpretation." All data is theory laden, as any scientist who was awake during the
20th century should know. The question is whether the interpretation is going to be
based on the assumption that the world makes sense or that the data has to be forced
into the framework of one particular way of reading the biblical text.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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