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To: jim35
Unless you consider that it has become so ingrained in the society of scientists, that it is too sacred a cow to be questioned, and that any who do are punished and ridiculed, and see their careers go down the drain. This is one of the oldest traditions in science, going way back.

It's also a tradition that theories manage to survive such ridicule--Berzelius was a great chemist who later on in life impeded progress in the field, but chemistry progressed despite him; continental drift was initially not accepted. In mathematics, Gauss blew off non-Euclidean geometry and Galois's field theory was ignored at first. For that matter, evolution was opposed by some scientists at first--remember Lord Kelvin's back of the envelope calculation of how long the sun could provide heat? (Too bad nuclear fission and fusion weren't known about at the time.)

262 posted on 08/28/2002 2:09:00 PM PDT by jejones
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To: jejones; All
Only lead foil can save us now...

if you don't want your brain/family sterilized---

the shield between state and TALIBAN--religion(evolution/atheism) is gone...

this is... chernobyl---radiation poisoning...

NUCLEAR SOCIAL----ALIEN ANTARTICA---APE-AMERICA!!

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Changing--morphing words-meaning-reality...

the CONSTITUTION via your 'logic-reason' to your fantasy-bias world-bs/IDEOLOGY---LIBERALISM/EVOLUTION is called psychosis!

264 posted on 08/28/2002 2:11:01 PM PDT by f.Christian
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