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- From: vwp@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (mark.a.skala)
- Subject: Re: bullshit
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:41:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.164128.14872@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- References: <1jnp5hINNrm3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan22.182825.21314@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <1993Jan24.194035.3298@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.194035.3298@wam.umd.edu> yohan@wam.umd.edu (Deore) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.182825.21314@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> vwp@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (mark.a.skala) writes:
- >>
- >>Personal experience is not "science". Also, you seem to be saying that
- >>people should believe in something until they find a reason not to. I
- >>think it should be the other way around. If astrology is valid, it should
- >>be very easy to prove. Use the scientific method; conduct valid, repeatable
- >>experiments. If anyone can show proof they have any paranormal powers,
- >>the magician James Randi has had an outstanding many thousand-dollar
- >>reward for about 20 years, just waiting for you to come and claim it.
- >>
- >>Mark A. Skala "Anything worth doing is worth
- >>vwp@cbnewsk.att.com doing to excess."
- >
- >
- >Does everything in life have to be experimentally proven to you so that
- >it is valid? So how come scientists still can't find out how trees take
- >in water from their roots and transport them up hundreds of feet to the
- >leaves? Sure, they have guesses, but no one still nows how, since there
- >is a gravitational force acting against the water? But still, the trees
- >still get their water, somehow right? Same thing with astrology. Sometimes
- >you can't explain everything in life, yet it works. Sure, you say that
- >science is much more rewarding because it gives us valid explinations, but
- >who says everything in life can be fully explained? If science is so
- >beneficial to us, how come we still can't find a cure for the common
- >cold? You should always THINK before you speak. No one is telling
- >you to BELIEVE in astrology, but at least accept the fact that it
- >EXISTS and there are people who study it.
- >
- >Each person has a unique way of finding enlightment, so don't put them
- >down just because you don't think they are right. Remember, if
- >you Mind, it will matter. If you DON'T MIND, it won't matter. Simple
- >as that..
- >
- >
- >yohan
- >
- First of all, I'm not putting anyone down, and I didn't start this thread,
- I just responded on the side of the original poster. You give some
- examples of things which scientists (might) have not yet figured out, I
- don't know, I'm not an expert in biology. It is not relevant. No one
- can argue that a huge number of scientific advances have been made since
- the beginning of written history. Also, it doesn't matter whether everything
- can be fully explained or not, people will just explain what they can.
- I DO always think before I post. I have never said that astrology does not
- exist. I is true, that, at this time, I do not believe there is any merit
- to its conclusions.
-
- Mark A. Skala "Anything worth doing is worth
- vwp@cbnewsk.att.com doing to excess."
-