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From: hes@ncsu.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: The Rock of Ages and the Ages of Rocks
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 23:14:01 EDT
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A large portion of this article was concerned with the way in which
scientists are trained to take many geological/physical/genetical
theories on "faith".  On the basis of observation, and personal
experience, I very strongly disagree.
While scientists are taught to question theories (and observations!),
there is a limit as to how much most people want to doubt at any one
instant.  I find that disagreeing with the (near)constancy of radio-
active decay, the conservation of mass, the constancy of the speed of
light, and the second law of thermodynamics, a little more than I care
to do before breakfast.
--henry schaffer