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texaslabrat wrote: I know I said I wouldn’t teach the unwilling..but seeing such misguided scientific lack of knowledge on this board bothers me for some reason.

I don’t think we’re communicating here.

You can cite as many pretty documents as you want, filled with equations, math. It is not proof. One must still take these “proofs” on faith. Don’t you see? They are just theories.

Whether they are right or wrong is a matter of fact. It is not a matter of voting. If 99.99% of all scientifically minded people believe these documents you link to are correct, that still does not “prove” them true.

Have you heard the story of how some guy determined the length of the emperor’s nose? He just asked a whole bunch of people how long they thought the emperor’s nose is. Then he averaged the result. And that’s what the length of the emperor’s nose is.

These theories you’re presenting are not subject to experimental verification. Just like cosmology and astrophysics. It’s all theory. Prevailing popular theory is more a fad combined with politics and self interest than true scientific fact.

You seem to take it on faith that the majority is right. Fine, that’s your privilege. I’ll stick with my beliefs, and I don’t mind being wrong. In this case it doesn’t matter if I’m wrong. But in other cases, if I happen to buck the majority and I happen to be right, there can be huge rewards — for me.

What exactly do you hope to accomplish anyway here with your efforts on this subject? Specifically why is it so disturbing to you if 100% of all people don’t happen to agree on this one issue?

-Dave