Posted by Timne on July 4, 2009, at 19:34:03
In reply to Re: Occam's razor » Timne, posted by Gabbette on July 4, 2009, at 18:58:33
> apologies, I missed the last paragraph of your post, and the last paragraph changed the whole meaning. And made my response redundant.
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> I do this frequently though I've vowed to work on it, I've gotten as far as apologizing very sincerely.Apology accepted, but not required or requested. I, too, tend to respond on line to pieces of what is said and don't always grock the big picture of what is being communicated before I tap out a reply.
The riddle of all of this is that alchemy and some of those traditional practices forbidden by old faith-based institutions of yore (and which survive as organizations to this day) laid the very foundation for modern science. You're right, though, in my view, that much modern science has become somewhat the shadow of the rigid institutions that forbade it in the past. On the other hand, some say every charlatan with a bullhorn has claimed the "Galileo effect" as the only reason their bizarre "truth" isn't accepted, when there is often a clear understanding in scientific terms of whatever it is the charlatan is hawking as mysterious.
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