[ForGod'sSake]

I guess if you have spent a lot of time and money becoming an expert in one line of thought, it is really irritating to be asked to change it especially by one who has not gone through the ordeal of "basic training".

And through it all they hold themselves up as practitioners of the scientific method™. Hypocrites!

[Fred Nerks]

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- Gautama Buddha

[Fred Nerks]

Don't be too hard on them...one has to take into account the history and background upon which the natural sciences were founded.

This is the bedrock. The names are familiar. Murcheson, Buckland, Agassiz, Sedgewick, Lyall...what was it Velikovsky said; they speak from the era of the horse and buggy and oil lamps?


http://www.grisda.org/origins/09028.htm