[allmendream]

And what advances did LeTourneau make in the Biological Sciences? I suppose one could be an excellent engineer and also believe in a flat earth, or Geocentricism; but it would be difficult to be an Astronomer with that view.

[John Leland 1789]

Any astronomer who, from his work, contributes to advances in technology and exploration, will make his contributions by and from what he can observe and measure and test NOW. What works now is what can be tested and measured now.

Conjecture and assumptions about what took place 40 million years ago will not be the basis for current invention or innovation. What can be measured now, and tested now will be the science that matters.