I disagree. Although the more superfluous speculations of religious authority about natural sciences were invalidated, the core doctrine of the church was not at all under any kind of threat because they had, wisely as professional fraud artists, distanced themselves from testable theories in that core doctrine.
What the modern theocracy has done is stand as intermediary not just between the numinous aspects of Creation and Man (in denying any such aspects in the name of "science") but also between Man and Nature from which Man receives not just spiritual sustenance but biological sustenance. By intermediating biological sustenance, the scientistic theocracy has placed at its very core doctrine -- that it is the source of the Bread of Life -- issues such as energy production. Even so, if they had merely screwed up on some energy production issue that affected only, say, a billion barrles of oil production or something, it might be spun in some fashion as is the special gift of the theocracy's debating over theology. It would be strained but it could be pulled off -- particularly with the help of organs of the theocracy's social stability and control such as the media and academic establishment. However, if we're talking something as revolutionary in energy, hence sustenance, as cold fusion, we could very well be in for a new kind of Protestant war that would make the nominal event appear to be child's play. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com>wrote: > > When LENR is finally applied at a level that even an idiot will have to >> accept, the physics community will have to explain why this acceptance took >> so long when so much evidence was available and when the need for the >> energy was so great. >> > > Although that would be a satisfying ending, I bet it will be more > like Galileo and the acceptance of the heliocentric solar system -- no > doubt exciting at the time, but now a little bit anticlimactic. Eventually > the typical person will read in Wikipedia about how there was a tiny little > fuss about cold fusion a long time ago, and then they will turn on the > television and curse the makers of the cold fusion generator for making you > have to pay to refuel it once a year. > > Eric > >
