Re: Homo erectus, city dweller and sailor

Tom McDonald wrote:
Doug Weller wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:16:17 -0700, in sci.archaeology, veritas wrote:
Since when to you is a theory NOT a wild-ass guess? What physical
evidece to I have to produce this time? I don't have to mail it to
you or anything do I? I don't have to do homework? I can just tell
you were to look and you will look? Regards, Ke
Killfile Giwer. Since he knows THE TRUTH he isn't interested in
discussion, only in converting people.

I agree in general about Giwer. But in the specific issue of what science means by the term 'theory', he is not wrong, and Ken is.

This is what I find infuriating about Giwer. On some issues, he is on the side of the angels (scientifically, at least). But he has given his heart to historical revisionism wrt at least the Holocaust, and this makes him unreliable on related issues.

I simply require physical evidence in all cases including the holy holocaust. I have found its believers are no more than that, believers. They reject the idea of requiring physical evidence. They attack anyone who deals only with physical evidence and rejects belief.

And the most common belief is that there is physical evidence for gas chambers and millions of dead Jews when there is none.

Still, killfiling will do more good than harm in his case.

Believers rarely have the skill to turn on their killfile. If they did, I would get a hell of a lot less flak from them.

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