On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
Shane Mage wrote:
If you're a "scientist" (especially an astronomer) and therefore
used to
finding "evidence that refutes your models" with every new set of
data that
arrives, you never "sniff your nose" at the data. Instead you
invent new,
inherently unobservable, entities like "dark matter," "black holes,"
"gravitational lensing," "bigh bang," "dark attractors,"
"epicycles," "dark
energy," etc.that can "explain" all the inconvenient experimental
results
that you want to explain away.
good scientists know that such things as "dark matter" are
speculations or hypotheses and then try to test them.
And just how does one "test" for the existence of an inherently
unobservable entity?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
"Hypothesi non teneo" (Isaac Newton)
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