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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
- Keywords: snarfy concedes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.161846.2544@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:18:46 GMT
- References: <4608@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- In article <4608@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- >
- > I will continue , however to point out alternative theories to account
- > for various facts of nature. Theories are not science, but merely
- > suggestions of possible explanations for observed phenomena . An
- > alternate theory need only be logically and mathematically consistent to
- > be as viable as relativity , or any other theory.
-
- No, to be viable, a theory must make useful, testable, predictions that are
- *better* than existing theory, or contain fewer unconstrained variables
- while at least equalling the predictive power of existing theory.
-
- > I am , at least,gratified to learn that Velikovsky's idea of planetary
- > collisions , long scorned and ridiculed by the scientific community , is
- > now the prevailing theory explaining the origin of the moon.
-
- Velikovsky's ideas are still scorned and ridiculed because they violate
- known facts. No one disputes the likelyhood that planetary bodies collided
- in the formative stages of the solar system, but equally true is that no
- competent scientist supports the idea that such collisions have occurred in
- historic times. The geologic record clearly denies such collisons, and
- celestial mechanics says that a ping pong Venus is not dynamically possible
- as Velikovsky describes it.
-
- Gary
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