Faith... Science... Its all how someone wants to take it.

On topic, How about an angrite like NWA 6291 for sale for less then the 
Wisconsin meteorite was selling for?? That's a great deal for those that really 
understand rare meteorites. At one point  Wi (still unofficial) was selling for 
over $300 per gram! This angrite, well under that price and so much more 
important... Certainly not "Ordinary" 
Hope everyone is doing well!

Greg C 


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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:33:21 
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Its official! NWA 6291 "The King ofAngrites"
        for sale -...

Faith is the action of making your self accept  some thing you know not to 
be true.  Other wise it is just  learning.

How did we get on this nonsense again?

Tom

In a  message dated 7/23/2010 8:22:53 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, 
[email protected]  writes:


Hi Eric,

I don't want to get  drawn into another long debate, but I'd like to make a 
couple of  observations.  You wrote: 

"Funny, I never realized there was  "proof" of what faith  believes."
----------------------------------------------------------------------   

Well Eric, by definition, faith doesn't require proof, but often  times 
matters of faith have quite a bit of evidence (a type of proof) to support  
them.  I could give examples, but I would be wrong to bring them up on this  
List, and if I did I would be chastised by most of the members  here.

In your email, you not only accuse faith of not having any  proofs, but you 
also say that it is only made up of, "conjecture and subjective  
interpretation of observation."

Well Eric, to be honest, I find  that much of today's science, and the 
science of the past, is also made up of  much "conjecture and subjective 
interpretation of observation."  It's not  supposed to be like this, but much 
of 
science has a very religious feel to  it.  Science is supposed to examine 
data, evidence and facts, and then  follow that data, evidence, facts wherever 
they may lead.  Scientists are  supposed to have completely open minds.  They 
are not supposed to have *any  agendas*.  Unfortunately, all too many 
scientists do have agendas  (presuppositions).  They view the evidence through 
their own biased  lenses.  They view the evidence through their own type of 
"faith  lense".

Mark wrote the following to you, "science has a lot more  'faith' to it 
than most people realise!"

I agree with him, and I  think Mark Twain would also agree with him.


With  respect,

Greg Lindh 




> Date: Fri, 23 Jul  2010 01:00:40 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To:  [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Its  official! NWA 6291 "The King 
ofAngrites" for sale -...
> 
> Funny, I  never realized there was "proof" of what faith believes. Only 
>  conjecture and subjective interpretation of observation.
> 
>  Eric
> 
> 
> On 7/23/2010 12:52 AM, Mark Ford  wrote:
>> Good quote.
>>
>> I also  like:
>>
>> "Science is almost the same as faith, but just  sometimes, once in a
>> while, the level of required proof is taken up  a notch"
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From:  [email protected]
>>  [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of  GREG
>> LINDH
>> Sent: 23 July 2010 04:31
>> To:  [email protected]
>> Cc: meteorite-list
>> Subject: Re:  [meteorite-list] Its official! NWA 6291 "The King
>> ofAngrites" for  sale -...
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello  Greg,
>>
>> I've always loved science, but I do think that  some in the scientific
>> community tend to stretch things a bit thin  sometimes. All kinds of
>> theories about all kinds of things are  thrown around with little to
>> support them. This reminds me of a  quote by Mark Twain. The quote
>> follows:
>>
>>  "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
>>  wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of
>>  fact."
>>
>> Something to think  about....
>>
>>
>> Greg  Lindh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> To:  [email protected]
>>> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:51:24  -0400
>>> CC: [email protected];  [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re:  [meteorite-list] Its official! NWA 6291 "The King of
>>>  
>> Angrites" for sale -...
>> 
>>> Hello  everyone,
>>>
>>> Isn't 'science' just that,  "Science"... Ever evolving as ground truth
>>> comes in? Without  open minds and hard work by many dedicated
>>> individuals,  'science' would not get very far, especially in the world
>>>  
>> 
>>> of meteortitics! Much of the initial work and/or  thoughts are educated
>>> 
>> 
>>> suggestions  which are meant to excite others in rational and sometimes
>>>  
>> 
>>> heated discussions, no matter what scientific  focus is being
>>> discussed. I won't even bring up the evolution  talks of the past...
>>>
>>> Best  Regards,
>>> Greg Hupe
>>>
>>> On Jul 22,  2010, at 8:00 AM, "Rose, David MD"<[email protected]>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> I agree with Jeff  completely. Same thing happens in Medicine. And
>>>> even when  the data is peer reviewed, that doesn't mean that it is
>>>> rock  solid truth. It's a process of continual evaluation and
>>>>  refinement.
>>>>
>>>>  David
>>>>
>>>> -----Original  Message-----
>>>> From:  [email protected]  [mailto:meteorite-
>>>> [email protected]] On  Behalf Of Jeff Grossman
>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:40  AM
>>>> To:  [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re:  [meteorite-list] Its official! NWA 6291 "The King of
>>>>  Angrites" for sale -...
>>>>
>>>> Yikes! Abstracts  to meetings are not peer reviewed!
>>>>
>>>>  jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/21/2010  10:05 PM, Adam Hupe wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Jason  and List,
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not refute  Melinda Hutson's article that was never peer
>>>>> reviewed  and
>>>>> contains several errors according to the classifying  scientists. I
>>>>> asked
>>>>> scientists  about the article and they stated, it is obvious that
>>>>>  she didn't read
>>>>> the original peer reviewed abstract  carefully, even mistaking the
>>>>> type  of
>>>>> petrology that was discussed using formulas that  simply do not
>>>>> apply to the
>>>>>  texture NWA 2999 exhibits.
>>>>>
>>>>> There  were several prestigious coauthors listed in the  original
>>>>> paper; Unique
>>>>> Angrite  NWA 2999: The Case For Samples From  Mercury.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who am I to argue with  the world's best? I will keep an open mind
>>>>> and hope  for
>>>>> some ground truth that will hopefully settle it once  and for all.
>>>>> I think the
>>>>> authors  were making a point of having an open mind and that the
>>>>>  subject should
>>>>> be debated possibly stimulated more  scientific interest in
>>>>> Angrites. It took  a
>>>>> long time to win over the scientific community that  some of these
>>>>> meteorites
>>>>> were  actually from Mars. It was debated to death and now  nobody
>>>>> argues about
>>>>> the  Shergottite parent body any  more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best  Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Adam
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