[net.origins] possible proof fallacy

throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop) (05/24/85)

dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich) <317@scgvaxd.UUCP>

>   As for the animals leaving the Ark, many animals have been known to
>   migrate over very long distances. "The Migration of Animals", Mathews.

>   Hibernation may have been the way Noah was able to care for the animals.
>   "Hibernation and estivation occur in every group of vertibrates except
>   birds, and its pre-disposing causes, immediate and remote, are by no
>   means uniform." Encyclopedia Britannica, W. P. Pycraft, 1956, Vol 11
>   p 539

>   In regards to plants, many plants could have survived as floating
>   vegetation rafts or by chance burial enough to the surface of the
>   ground for asexual sprouting of new shoots.

dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) <1072@uwmacc.UUCP>

> And since it is possible, it must be true?  The fallacy of the
> possible proof.

Couldn't have said it better myself, so I didn't.
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Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC
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