> I'm a tax accountant. Suppose I handed you your 1995 return and it showed
> taxable income of $30,000 and income tax of $50,000, You would certainly
> question whether it was properly prepared.
> And what right would I have to respond, "Go to hell - you've never read the
> Internal Revenue Code."
> That's right - none. Because the return didn't make sense, and you need not
> be a tax accountant to see it. THAT'S my point.
That's not necessarily a valid point since many things in science are
counterintuitive.
Would it be valid to criticize relativity or quantum mechanics because these
theories tell us things that are apparently in conflict with our real-world
experience? How do you think a physicist would respond if you told him that
relativity was a bunch of bull because everyone knows time can't slow down
but you also admitted to never having heard of the Lorentz transformations?
Plain old common sense isn't always valid.
- Steve.
-- Steven H. Schimmrich Callsign KB9LCG s-schim@uiuc.edu Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 245 Natural History Building, Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 244-1246 http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/s-schim Deus noster refugium