Well put. Scientists do not use words the way lay people do, and it can be confusing if you don't know the "code."
Gary Smith wrote: > No, it is postulating a theory. Once a theory is set out for all to read, > then it is up to the rest of us to disprove the theory by testing it > against known evidences. That does not yet make it a fact, as future > evidence can always refute a theory. Without theories, we would not > advance in science or knowledge. The danger comes when we convince > ourselves that a theory is a fact, when in fact, it isn't. > > K'aya K'ama, > Gerald/gary Smith gszion1 @juno.com http://www > .geocities.com/rameumptom/index.html > "No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." - > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > > JWR: > It seems to me that an honest scholar would just stick to writing things > he > can authenticate using the documentary record, or at least the > archaeological record. In the absence of such records the author isn't > just engaging in unfounded supposition, he is engaged in irresponsible > guessing and wild speculation. That is, he is just making up the > story. Such a book is fiction, not nonfiction. > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today > > Only $9.95 per month! > > Visit www.juno.com > > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland “The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we don’t want a world of engineers.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1950) Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ${list_promo}
