Re: Let's get controversial about Barry Fell

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:41:11 GMT, David B <tronospamchos@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:53:01 GMT, David B <tronospamchos@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:

In all fairness, Barry saw patterns that nobody else could see, even
when he explained the patterns to them. In some cases he seemed to be
doing the equivalent of reading messages from God in the wall paper
but in other cases he may have been right. Who really knows? I don't.

That's a bit like a stopped clock being exactly right more often than a
slow or fast one. Some might prefer to see it as analogous to Clarke's
Third Law- any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from
kookery- but what other examples do we have of discoveries which nobody
at all could understand, even when they were carefully explained by the
discoverer over a period of years?

Have you studied the arguments about climate change recently?

They can't all be right and there are plenty of examples of advocates
from side A being ignored by the inhabitants of side B, and vice
versa. Some of the arguments that are being commonly decried will one
day turn out to be right, and I'm picking this about some quite
important topics.

I've actually studied quite a bit of the evidence behind the arguments
about climate change recently. The "hockey stick" is very real and very
anomalous, and if some folks hadn't wasted so much time denying its
existence, we'd probably understand a great deal more about the precise
causes of it by now.

There we go again! Is the hockey stick real or is it the result of
cooked up data? If the hockeystick is real, what happens to the
evidence for a Roman warm period, a medieval warm period and a little
ice age? Who knows? Watch this space. :-)

However, as for Barry Fell, I'm with Tom- if Barry
had just proceeded with a bit more patience, and perhaps concentrated on
making a really sound case for a limited set of inscriptions generated
by a particular culture, he would have gained genuine respect.

Where would you set the limit? <1?



Eric Stevens
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