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To: DiogenesLamp
That people would challenge your notion of a "Geocentric" Universe and refuse to respect your Robed Clergy, ought to be clue enough for you that Your false, albeit established religious dogma is on a collision course with reality.

I guess you are comparing the commonly-held definition of "natural born citizen" with the old, pre-Copernican, earth-centered model of the universe.

That gets at the difference between hard science and interpretive activities.

You can overturn a scientific theory through more accurate observation and carefully crafted experiments.

But with interpretative activities (you can't really call them "sciences") unless you can bring to light some long-unknown document you don't get the same kind of refutations.

It looks like what you're doing is trying to make one set of wills prevail over another set of wills, and that's not what happened with Copernicus and his scientific revolution.

56 posted on 07/25/2011 3:29:23 PM PDT by x
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To: x
I guess you are comparing the commonly-held definition of "natural born citizen" with the old, pre-Copernican, earth-centered model of the universe.

Only commonly held among the ignorant, and yes, it is just like the belief that the Sun orbits the Earth. At first glance it appears to be true, but deeper investigation reveals it is utter rubbish.

That gets at the difference between hard science and interpretive activities.

Science relies on interpretation of hard facts. This is no different, but for the lawyers penchant to worship "Precedent," thereby placing them in the role of "bad" or even worse "Non" scientists. They do not argue from "First Principles" rather they argue from the fallacy of Authority.

You can overturn a scientific theory through more accurate observation and carefully crafted experiments.

You can overturn a bad misunderstanding of History the same way, but for the obtuseness of people who refuse to accept the evidence presented to them.

But with interpretative activities (you can't really call them "sciences") unless you can bring to light some long-unknown document you don't get the same kind of refutations.

They didn't find a "Document" to discover the Neutron. It was a careful series of observations regarding the behavior of radioactive particles in experiments. By the same token, the behavior of the founders ought to offer another clue as to what their intentions were.

It looks like what you're doing is trying to make one set of wills prevail over another set of wills, and that's not what happened with Copernicus and his scientific revolution.

That is what you ASSERT I am doing, but the reality is more like Galileo v. the Church. Contemporary writings and statements of the founders demonstrate their intent to a reasonable degree of scientific rigor , and that intent is completely incompatible with Split nationality/divided allegiance. That there are those who refuse to comprehend the evidence which demonstrates this, and continuously cite as a substitute for proof, what other dogma spouters in robes have previously proclaimed, is evidence that they have taken on the role of supporters of the Church, Which was Unanimous, Ubiquitous, powerful, and WRONG.

We are constantly asked to believe, without the slightest bit of evidence mind you, that the founders would be okay with the Son of a Non-American (British even) as our Chief Executive Officer. We are constantly told that the Church of the Holy "precedent" proclaims that cases not even related to Article II eligibility somehow have revoked it in its original meaning. Sorry, I'm just not of the body of "Landru."

58 posted on 07/25/2011 4:30:14 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (The TAIL of Hawaiian Bureaucracy WAGS the DOG of Constitutional Law.)
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