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To: Chiapet
But that's exactly what you were doing in your earlier posts regarding the speed of light and the quantum mechanical description of light.

I believe the speed of light to be finite. Einstein assumed there is nothing faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. Is he the last word on the subject? Maybe you think science has all these things settled. I don't, let alone the history of the universe. Fact is, I am a bigger skeptic than certain evolutionist lap dogs who have the history of the universe memorized from their favorite textbooks.

488 posted on 05/24/2005 10:03:18 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

"Fact is, I am a bigger skeptic than certain evolutionist lap dogs who have the history of the universe memorized from their favorite textbooks."

Ok, the assumption that you base this statement on is that higher level science education is based entirely upon reading and regurgitating passages in textbooks. While I am admittedly not a scientist, I was married to a chemistry PhD student, and I can tell you from direct observation that your assumption is dead wrong.

The principles learned in graduate level sciences are learned by doing, not by reading. The mathematics involved are not memorized, they are learned by working them through. I remember my ex's differential equations class had him just about throwing himself out a window, but he learned it.

Again, none of real science education involves rote memorization, or taking things on faith.


504 posted on 05/24/2005 11:43:46 AM PDT by Chiapet (Chthulu for President: Why vote for a lesser evil?)
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