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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Subject: Re: Folklore in the history of Science
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.120121.2182@hsr.no>
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- Organization: Rogaland University Centre
- References: <1993Jan16.024715.28508@smds.com> <105259@netnews.upenn.edu> <1993Jan18.030416.16665@smds.com> <1jehmjINNqdd@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:01:21 GMT
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- >Let me state it more precisely -- continental drift was more commonly
- >accepted by European geologists, but nobody accepted Wegener's proposed
- >mechanism. My source for saying this is an article by Gould -- what's
- >yours? [I don't have the text at hand, but I will be glad to dig it
- >up and give exact quotes.]
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- I read that article, too. The most interesting thing about it was Gould's
- discussion on the interpretation of facts. The *data which Wegener used to come
- up with continental drift was *exactly* the same data which previous geological
- theories were based on. And the reason why we prefer the theory of continental
- drift before other theories is because of its explanatory power.
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- Onar.
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