Dialog on list (fwd)
Keith Cowan (cowan@pci.on.ca)
Sun, 20 Nov 1994 21:25:54 -0500 (EST)
> Daniel Aronson
> dacce@world.std.com
>
> P.S.: It seems questions of utility and evidence are not restricted to
> the "soft" sciences: Recent observations from the repaired Hubble
> telescope seem to provide data that would make the oldest stars older
> than the accepted age of the universe, according to the accepted methods
> for determining those ages. Some think this means that it is time for a new
> theory, and others that the data is wrong or incomplete.
>
Just so! If we reject approaches that apparently work for lack of scientific
evidence, we are doomed to reject all of engineering which has proceeded to
build a world based upon approximations and approaches that work with
incomplete scientific support. Let's try not to turn L-O into a dogmatic
scientific debating forum. The fact is that much so called evidence is
merely convenient assembling of statistics to support an assertion...
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