Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umich.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!mb2c!umich!torek From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek ) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Scientific advance Message-ID: <249@umich.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 14:29:38 EDT Article-I.D.: umich.249 Posted: Wed Sep 25 14:29:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 08:07:43 EDT References: <2250346@hpfcms.UUCP> <27500124@ISM780B.UUCP> Reply-To: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek ) Distribution: net Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 9 Keywords: Re: RE: Weird Science (response) In article <27500124@ISM780B.UUCP> jim@ISM780B.UUCP writes: >... Scientific discovery and advance is nearly >monotonic; no such claim can be made for any religion. I'm the first to defend the rationality of science, but this claim is overly grandiose. Science doesn't advance monotonically; T.S. Kuhn showed otherwise. --Paul V Torek torek@umich Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com