From: John W Burgeson (jwburgeson@juno.com)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 01:23:55 EST
Peter gave a good reply to my question on evolutionary quantification; at
least it was a start.
He wrote: "But you are hardly serious, I think, in suggesting upping the
age of the earth 10 or
100 times! ;-)"
First, in suggesting it, I said it seemed very unlikely. Just not "known"
to be out of the question.
I am not one that follows the philosophy of Horgan (see his book "The End
of Science"). 110 years ago we "knew" the earth's age was 50,000,000
years or so. Now we "know" the number is 4,500,000,000 or so. We also
"knew" that you could not fly, that atoms were stable, that the "universe
is a mechanism" model was quite satisfactory for every experiment in
physics and chemistry, that communications over a distance without wires
was out of the question, etc. etc.
That was the world my grandfather knew.
What world will my grandchildren understand?
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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