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From: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Rock of Ages and the Ages of Rocks
Message-ID: <337@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 14:19:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 14:19:04 1985
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <2951@ncsu.UUCP> hes@ncsu.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:
>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

AMEN!