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To: tpanther
Things need evidence to rise above a hypothesis. None of those things you mentioned are a central part of science or a productive part of science.

Do you think somehow that the sciences of geology or biology or chemistry or physics are somehow changed or discredited because some theoretical physicist published some musings about the “multi-verse”?

If it is a productive hypothesis it will be embraced and expounded upon.

If it is not productive they will wonder “what was he smoking”.

That is how science works. We have a mechanism for sorting out the productive ideas from the useless ones.

202 posted on 02/19/2009 9:06:07 PM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream

OK, so following this to it’s logical conclusions allmendream...please explain the mysterious absence of lawsuits surrounding all these useless nonproductive musings...

manmade global warming, multiverse, string theory, studying the effects of prayer...after all your tax dollars are going down the drain too, I assume.

Could it be something other than science is at play here?

Is it ONLY about evidence as you suggest?


We have a mechanism for sorting out the productive ideas from the useless ones.

Ummmm in case you haven’t noticed, these aren’t exactly brand new ideas...so what exactly IS that allmendream?


238 posted on 02/19/2009 9:35:46 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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