Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear John, On 30 Dec 2013, at 03:11, John Mikes wrote: We 'use' practical conclusions - yet should not draw final and universal ones on a totality we don't know. Call it Scientific humility. I partially agree/disagree here. We cannot draw "final conclusion". I do agree with this, as we ne

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread John Mikes
I don't intend to play DA or Defense just muse about the 'firmness' of a temporary "scientific belief" (even supportable by tests using instruments - or theories - based on the acceptability of those "beliefs"). There were 'centuries' with scientific belief of the Geocentric pattern - when Coperni

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 14:22, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/29/2013 4:07 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 30 December 2013 12:57, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > >> Well Mr. Owen used the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth >> (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle >> (tha

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 4:07 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 12:57, Quentin Anciaux > wrote: Well Mr. Owen used the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle (that only he knows) he

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 12:57, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Well Mr. Owen used the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth > (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle > (that only he knows) he feel compelled to overwhelm us with his truth and > his patronizing vocab

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Well Mr. Owen use the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle (that only he knows) he feel compelled to overwhelm us with his truth and his patronizing vocabulary... why ? Quentin 2013/12/30 freqflyer07281972 > Mi