----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?
> (In its fundamentals, science is a form of transcultural communication > in which you use forms of argument that cannot be denied by the > students of someone who opposes you. You use reasoning that all > accept, as among mathematicians, observations, as among astronomers, > or experiments, as among everyone who is able. Your enemy's students > think though the same problems as you, or make similar observations, > or, most effectively for your attempt at changing minds, conduct > experiments that confirm your results. Your enemy simply ignores you, > if you are lucky, which enables him to change his mind later, or says > you are a fraud. That is why `paradigm shifting' ideas consume at > least a generation.) We differ significantly here. As a counter example, Shelly Glashow was almost laughed off the stage for proposing Electroweak at a conference. A year later, almost everyone agreed that he was right. Within a few years it was called "The Standard Model." Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
