Posted on 03/19/2005 5:16:19 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
Yes, you're quite right. I missed your thread entirely. Dang.
Nothing wrong with this thread. It's certainly not a duplication. But coming on so soon after the earlier one, I don't know if I should ping the list again.
Understood. Probably don't need to. A lot of 'em might see this one, anyway.
Thanks for the ping. Sorry for being off for a bit. I like both threads. :-)
I was messing around with my wristwatch calculator and came up with the exact same conclusion.
Sean Carroll, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, US, says, "I don't really understand what they're doing.
It's not dead yet, Jim...but it's on life support.
"What would be really nice, even if the ultimate consensus settles down to a judgment that KMNR weren't right, is if people understood that this is the way science works. Individual papers may be right or wrong; but they are put out there for the community to debate about, different critiques are put forward, and eventually the truth comes out. Everyone is after the same thing, trying to figure out how the universe works. Something our creationist friends will never quite appreciate."
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