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To: js1138

"James Clerk Maxwell was the one who objected based on his calculated maximum age of the sun. He had a pretty good calculation going -- almost as valid as the probability estimates being touted by creationists today."

Then I guess you could say he was right, but for the wrong reason.

If you are going to "appeal to authority," you can't do much better than James Clerk Maxwell. I suspect that everyone here has heard of Maxwell's equations of electromagnetics.


806 posted on 12/27/2004 11:40:19 AM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
Then I guess you could say he was right, but for the wrong reason.

You could say that, but you would be wrong.

808 posted on 12/27/2004 11:42:16 AM PST by js1138 (D*mn, I Missed!)
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Then I guess you could say he was right, but for the wrong reason.

All the evidence is that he was wrong.

809 posted on 12/27/2004 11:43:34 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: RussP
If you are going to "appeal to authority," you can't do much better than James Clerk Maxwell. I suspect that everyone here has heard of Maxwell's equations of electromagnetics.

Has everyone here heard that electromagnetism isn't biology or geology?

811 posted on 12/27/2004 11:57:16 AM PST by VadeRetro
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