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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.015509.27951@ra.msstate.edu>
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- References: <1e6j38INN951@gap.caltech.edu>> <RANDOLPH.92Nov16211607@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM> <1ebio5INNol2@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:55:09 GMT
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- In article <1ebio5INNol2@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <RANDOLPH.92Nov16211607@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>, randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:
- >>Scientists as a group reject as
- >>erroneous data which contradicts current paradigms--there has to be a
- >>new hypothesis before they are willing to change.
- >
- >Oh? Please explain the acceptance of the Michelson-Morley experiment. Please
- >explain why scientists didn't claim that the absence of the untraviolet
- >catastrophe wasn't simply experimental error.
- >
- >When you get enough data that doesn't fit current theories, the theories
- >change. Not the other way around. Irreproducible anomalies, of course, aren't
- >going to drive any rapid change in models.
-
- Okay. How do either of you feel about the possibility that Red Shift is not
- always an indicator of distance... A certain person's 'peculiar galaxies...'
- I can't remember his name off-hand. He wound up going to Europe as he couldn't
- get telelscope time here in the US.
- Jim.
-
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- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus
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