Re: What does this have to do with electronics?

From: Rich Grise (null_at_example.net)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:50:06 GMT

On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:19 am, John Woodgate did deign to grace us
with the following:

> I read in sci.electronics.design that Kevin Aylward
> <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote (in <WFT0d.22661$F73.3169@fe2.news.bl
> ueyonder.co.uk>) about 'What does this have to do with electronics?', on
> Sun, 12 Sep 2004:
>
> Some rude person wrote:
>
>>> I keep trying to tell you, Aylward, that just because you don't
>>> believe in something, doesn't make it not so.
>>>
>>
>>I keep trying to tell you, lack of proof that there is not something
>>else out there, is no basis to form a conjecture that there is.
>
> I think that's too hard. I think it's not unreasonable to base a
> *conjecture* (no more) on a lack of satisfaction with an explanation.
> There are several precedents; Mendeleev's conjecture of the Periodic
> Table, being not satisfied with Newlands' Law of Octaves, general
> dissatisfaction with the proliferation of sub-atomic particles, leading
> to the 'quark' conjecture (as it then was).
>
> What is NOT sensible is to base anything MORE than a conjecture, i.e. a
> hypothesis and especially not a theory, on mere dissatisfaction. A
> hypothesis has to be testable to be come a theory, and a theory has to
> predict further falsifiable results.
>
On another note, if you don't believe in God, go skydiving.

Your very first opening shock will be a religious experience. ;-)

When you're training, and you look at the instructor instead of your rig,
he says, "Don't look at me - up there, there's nobody but you and God,
and He don't talk to skydivers, 'cause He thinks we're crazy."

Cheers!
Rich

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