Re: different thread

From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 22:04:33 EDT

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    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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