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Thread #160033 Message #3798719
Posted By: Donuel
02-Jul-16 - 08:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Subject: RE: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Coincidence! Steve's post about popular science weasel words like, it is possible, if so then, experts claim...
Science fiction is a valid reservoir of ideas but it is for beginning an inquiry but not for ending up with conclusions.
Rupert Murdoch is busy rewriting history with his dozen news, science and history cable TV channels. On a history channel of his a show called ancient aliens has excellent video of archeological sites but a soundtrack of gibberish about aliens doing everything and adding or leaving out epochs to suit their purpose.
When they said we went from horse and buggy to landing on the moon in just 60 years, they conveniently ignore 3 thousand years of scientific discovery and Newton to boot. On the Ancient Alien Show one can hear every minute rhetoric like " ( incredible stupid claim) followed by, IF TRUE THIS EVIDENCE IS PROOF OF ( incredible stupid claim )".
People like Vielikovsky and Joseph Cambell have organized folklore for their own purposes to unravel what ancient writings intended.
A worthy but difficult pursuit full of pithy postulations and pitfalls. Ptooey.