From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 21:07:23 EDT
Silly is the incessant, prideful insistence in the scientific community that
pet hypotheses should be accorded theoretical status and pet theories be
worshiped as irrefutable fact.
Examples? a complete human genome with "junk" DNA now, maybe not junk DNA
after all... Was it Goodall who was completely astonished when others
discovered her beloved chimps were cannibalistic? Need we speak of Ms.
Mead?
Empirical science is as godly a pursuit of knowledge a person can embark
upon. Too many scientists simply leap beyond the firm basis of empiricism
to embrace as fact things not yet proven. All too frequently things are
proven to not be as they seem.
I tend to believe Sirius was indeed about 9 light years away. I must wait 9
years or so to find out if it is still so today. I am not so sure about
the geologic dating hypotheses....or global warming.... or the idea that we
have saved the ozone layer.
Jay Willingham
----- Original Message -----
From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "Jay Willingham" <jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>; "ASA"
<asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: different thread
> Jay Willingham wrote:
>
> > That is your opinion.
>
> Of approximately the same sort as my "opinion" that Sirius is about 9
light
> years away. After all, no one's ever stretched out a tape to measure it!
> Can we please stop silliness like this? If anybody can reject any
> observation he/she wishes just by saying "That is your opinion" then
there's no
> point in discussing anything.
>
>
> Shalom,
>
> George
>
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