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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
TheWay writes: quote: When did I type this? I get the feeling your trying to sound smart. You didn't type this, and EighteenDelta did not say that you typed this. He said you quoted it. Reread his Message 122 and you'll see that he's just telling you that the answer to your question was in the text you quoted. Here's that part of EighteenDelta's message:
EighteenDelta in Message 123 writes: you ask writes: The heat from radioactive decay? It seems pretty clearly stated, even quoted by you
heat generated at faults from the frictional forces. The "heat generated at faults from the frictional forces" portion was from Iceage, you quoted it, then asked if the heat was from radioactive decay. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
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Peg writes: Razd writes: Do you know of a single instance where they have changed drastically versus refined the concepts? Piltdown man! the find was asserted to be a vital “missing link” between man and beast...etc... Piltdown man was a fraud perpetuated upon the scientific community, one which that community eventually uncovered as the growing evidence made the possibility of fraud increasingly difficult to ignore. Even in the early years after its "discovery" when its validity was not in question, Piltdown was an anomaly that had little impact on scientific theories of human origins, and as time went by it was increasingly marginalized as fraud increasingly became the only realistic explanation. If you want an example of science radically changing theory you should look to continental drift. Read up on Eugene Wegener over at Wikipedia, it's a great story. Briefly, Wegener stood up to a geological community that largely rejected his ideas about continental motion about the earth's surface. He was eventually shown right, posthumously, unfortunately. Another example of radical change to theory would be what we today call the Copernican revolution, the discovery by Copernicus and the eventual acceptance by the rest of the world that the Earth does not lie at the center of the universe. But revolution and refinement of scientific theory are both driven by evidence. That's what makes the process of developing theories scientific. Theories are not accepted because scientists say so. Theories are accepted because the evidence is of sufficient volume and quality to persuade the community of scientists. The argument, "You've been wrong before and could be wrong again," is one that can be applied by all sides in all discussions and so has no validity. The accusation, "You could be wrong," just draws the retort, "So could you," and then what?
--Percy Edited by AdminNosy, : No reason given.
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Son writes: Adam ate at the tree of knowledge 6K years ago, but we only had computers for around 11 years, I wonder why ^^ 11 years? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Son writes: Sorry, I meant the Internet of course... 11 years? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
I've often found that volubility and ignorance are positively correlated.
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Beyond its strict dictionary definition, voluble also has a mildly derogatory common connotation as referring to someone who talks too much, and in this context is a bit closer in meaning to glib than facile.
--Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Taz writes: Am I voluble? Oh, indubitably! --Percy Edited by Percy, : Smilie issue?
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Pressie writes: If you want evidence, try peer-reviewed scientific literature. Not websites. For geology, try the peer-reviewed scientific journal called the South African Jornal of Geology, http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/misc/about.dtl. That's science. It doesn't appear on websites. It is distributed, bought and read by peers who know enough about the subject, who are qualified and can critique the work meaningfully and sufficiently. That's how scientific concensus is obtained. Another way of looking at it is that while there are many websites that accurately present the current state of scientific knowledge, if you want the original data from which this knowledge is distilled then you often have to go to the technical literature. Websites often present what we know without explaining how we know it. This is a general tendency that Dr Adequate is attempting to avoid in his Introduction To Geology thread. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Fix incorrect attribution. Edited by Percy, : Fix incorrect punctuation.
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
Can't you debate Faith at her blog?
Tell her Percy says hi and sends her fond wishes. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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pandion writes: You got me here. The age of the layers date from about 50 million years to about 200 million years. I think I understand what Zen Deist is getting at. He's referring to layers of continuous deposition. Layers representing continuous periods of deposition for decades or even millennia could not have formed in a single flood year. --Percy
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