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Since you cannot disprove their statements when shown proof that what you have been saying is total bunk, in typical Clintonian way, you attack the messenger and try to smear their character.

Ouch. No fair. I was busy reviewing my thermodynamics. So far I have seen very little evidence, much less "proof". Plus I have to put up with seeing a couple hundred scientists every day and they say all kinds of things. They still need evidence.

The above shows how wrong you are. If they did not know the theory behind it, they never would have been able to make a working cathode ray tube.

The cathode ray tube was invented by Sir William Crookes in 1855. Sir J.J. Thompson discovered electrons in 1897. Fortunately I can still keep track of the calendar.

One of the people quoted in that list was the guy all you evos have orgasms about - Stephen Jay Gould. He himself says that the fossil evidence does not support evolution.

I think we covered this mis-quote on the last thread. Actually the guy I have orgasms about is Brian McGuire. In 1982, he discovered evidence that frogs were replacing neurons during his graduate work at Vanderbilt. Unfortunately, he didn't publish because everybody knows "organisms don't grow new neurons." Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.

"The cathode ray tube was invented by Sir William Crookes in 1855. Sir J.J. Thompson discovered electrons in 1897. Fortunately I can still keep track of the calendar."

Wrong again!
Faraday was able to resume his work on electro-magnetism, when he discovered on 29 August 1831, electro-magnetic induction. This is the principle behind the electric transformer and generator. It was this discovery, more than any other, that allowed electricity to be turned, during the nineteenth century, from a scientific curiosity into a powerful technology. During the remainder of the 1830s Faraday worked on developing his ideas on electricity. He enunciated a new theory of electro-chemical action between 1832 and 1834 one of the results of which was that he coined, with William Whewell, many of the words now so familiar - electrode, electrolyte, anode, cathode and ion to name but five. In the later half of the 1830s Faraday worked on a new theory of static electricity and electrical induction. This work led him to reject the traditional theory that electricity was an imponderable fluid or fluids. Instead he proposed that electricity was a form of force that passed from particle to particle of matter.
from: Michael Faraday
Franklin had discovered electricity. Faraday had discovered the electric motor and how to harness electricity to do work and the theories behind it long before 1855.