From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 22:04:33 EDT
"Argument weak here. Shout like hell."
Jay Willingham wrote:
>
> 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
> >
-- George L. Murphy gmurphy@raex.com http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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