[AmishDude]

You had enough to identify Fleming's breakthru as specificially biological, rather than mathematical.

I was also not interested in doing your work for you.

It felt like I was working with the biologists all over again.

But here is a bigger question. Fleming discovered penicillin. He discovered that the bacteria did not grow in that area.

Did he have any clue at all why that was the case?

Of course, he didn't need to, to use the penicillin to treat disease. But in reality, all he did was observe. Thank God he did, but this isn't an example of high-order thinking. Not everybody has to be a high-order thinker. Plato didn't envision many philosopher kings, either.

[js1138]

But in reality, all he did was observe.

The most ignorant thing I've seen posted today.

[AmishDude]

After reading the second paragraph of my reply again, perhaps I should make more judicious use of this:

;)

[donh]

You had enough to identify Fleming's breakthru as specificially biological, rather than mathematical.

I was also not interested in doing your work for you.

Nor qualified, apprently.

Of course, he didn't need to, to use the penicillin to treat disease. But in reality, all he did was observe. Thank God he did, but this isn't an example of high-order thinking.

Who, other than you, gives a rat's behind? Supposedly "Higher order" thinking didn't produce the goods. Fleming did. And he did not just "observe" his lucky accident, he observed biological behavior that he organized and constrained, and had been trained to observe and understand.