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  2. From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  4. Subject: Re: Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
  5. Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:55:49 GMT
  6. Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
  7. Lines: 12
  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <1ebio5INNol2@gap.caltech.edu>
  10. References: <1e3lqaINNadv@gap.caltech.edu>,<RANDOLPH.92Nov15125813@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>    <1e6j38INN951@gap.caltech.edu>,<RANDOLPH.92Nov16211607@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>
  11. Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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  13.  
  14. In article <RANDOLPH.92Nov16211607@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>, randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:
  15. >Scientists as a group reject as
  16. >erroneous data which contradicts current paradigms--there has to be a
  17. >new hypothesis before they are willing to change.
  18.  
  19. Oh?  Please explain the acceptance of the Michelson-Morley experiment.  Please
  20. explain why scientists didn't claim that the absence of the untraviolet
  21. catastrophe wasn't simply experimental error.
  22.  
  23. When you get enough data that doesn't fit current theories, the theories
  24. change.  Not the other way around.  Irreproducible anomalies, of course, aren't
  25. going to drive any rapid change in models.
  26.