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I have some quibbles to rant about:

[log in to unmask] on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 1:30 PM -0500
wrote:
"
>The FACTS of science can be as wrong as the facts of a religion.
"

How can scientific facts be wrong? They are neither right, nor wrong -
they just are. The ripened apple falls to the earth from the tree. This is
a fact. It is the scientific *interpretation* of the fact that changes -
from Plato, to Newton, to Einstein. The apple falls irregardless of the
explanations made for the fact. The scientific interpretation may be wrong
or right, but facts themselves almost never change.

[log in to unmask] on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 1:30 PM -0500
wrote:
"It is not the facts that are important at all (facts that are 'known'
might rightly be called history.)"

All facts of any kind are historical. Feeling pain from touching a hot
stove is historical. The damage was done before the nerve signals reached
the brain for realization. Even seeing is a historical event, for even at
the speed of light, time has passed before the reflected light from the
event gets to your eyes, let alone to your brain.

OK, so much for rants and quibbles.

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