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From: gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: science, i love you
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Date: 16 Mar 88 01:41:42 GMT
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In article <2762@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, res@ihlpe.ATT.COM writes:
) | What is my point?  Only that a lot of what gets passed off as science
) | is nothing but conventional dogma.  
> 
> No.  What is passed off as science is the "currently accepted" view of
> the universe, as derived from theory and experiment, and filtered
> through human frailty.  It is very hard for me to accept the word
> "dogma" applied to science.  To me dogma implies belief despite
> contrary evidence. ...

Would somebody please mail this fellow something by Charles Fort? _New
Lands_ would be a good choice.

It's the same in science as in politics:  A revolution is a revolt
that succeeds.  If you want to convince me that the earth is round,
you've got to show me by rolling it!

-:-
	 "But Uranus was discovered, and the magicians were called
	upon to calculate his path.
	  They computed the orbit of Uranus.
	  He went somewhere else."
					--C. Fort
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...!ihnp4!odyssey!gls