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To: aNYCguy

And I suppose the Ancient Greeks should have retracted their hypothesis about Atoms, and burned all their scrolls which made reference to such notions.

One does not have to prove a hypothesis to make it worthy of scientific study.. but one MUST disprove it in order to make it unworthy. That means the burden is upon you to disprove it if you can.


121 posted on 03/22/2006 11:33:51 PM PST by AnnoyedOne
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To: AnnoyedOne
And I suppose the Ancient Greeks should have retracted their hypothesis about Atoms, and burned all their scrolls which made reference to such notions.

Let me tell you how discussion works: When someone makes a claim, they should be ready to support it or retract it. In this case, you made an absurd claim about knowing certain relative probabilities, a claim which was not true, and were asked to support or retract it.

Now, an adult who knows how discussion works would retract their unsupportable claim, even though they might really want it to be true. A child would whine that the burden is on the rest of the world to prove them wrong, and that disbelieving the child's asinine claims is tantamount to burning ancient scrolls of scientific conjecture.
125 posted on 03/23/2006 12:01:05 AM PST by aNYCguy
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