Re: [asa] YEC--What can we offer them?

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>>> On 7/3/2007 at 12:43 PM, in message
<20070703174520.64828711495@gray.dordt.edu>, "Randy Isaac"
<randyisaac@comcast.net> wrote:
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> By the way, in my talk I ended up claiming that, as far as I could tell, 
> there has been no case where a scientific theory which has been validated by 
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> data from many independent sources and which is accepted as consensus by the 
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> mainstream community, has been later invalidated. I'd love to hear of any 
> examples that any of you might think of.
I haven't been following this thread closely but I think Kuhn just rolled over in his grave.
He would claim  that there was lot of evidence for pre Einstein physics and in fact some of those models still work.
In chemistry biologist still use the Bohr mode because it explains some concepts easier than drawing clouds of electrons etc.
The early models of the cell assuming the protein was denatured fit with a lot of the evidence.
Some of the early inheritance models (pre-Cell theory fit a lot of the evidence).
That does not mean that some of these were not poor or wrong models but they did fit with a lot of the evidence of the day.
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