gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman) (03/16/88)
In article <2762@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, res@ihlpe.ATT.COM writes: ) | What is my point? Only that a lot of what gets passed off as science ) | is nothing but conventional dogma. > > No. What is passed off as science is the "currently accepted" view of > the universe, as derived from theory and experiment, and filtered > through human frailty. It is very hard for me to accept the word > "dogma" applied to science. To me dogma implies belief despite > contrary evidence. ... Would somebody please mail this fellow something by Charles Fort? _New Lands_ would be a good choice. It's the same in science as in politics: A revolution is a revolt that succeeds. If you want to convince me that the earth is round, you've got to show me by rolling it! -:- "But Uranus was discovered, and the magicians were called upon to calculate his path. They computed the orbit of Uranus. He went somewhere else." --C. Fort -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...!ihnp4!odyssey!gls