Re: Christmas vs "Holidays"

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:26:11 +0000

I read in sci.electronics.design that awnospamj@ev1.net
<figment@ev1.net> wrote (in <10s6asam5570n9a@corp.supernews.com>) about
'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Fri, 17 Dec 2004:
>
>"Kevin Aylward" <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:biFwd.2299$Qo4.555@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> Rich The Philosophizer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:26:15 +0000, Kevin Aylward wrote:
>>>
>> Pretty simple. Its full of demonstrable blatant contradictions, so this
>> view is not debateable. In science, when when get contradictions, we
>> declare the thing to be false. e.g. www.evilbible.com.
>>
>Well, I know now you can not be a scientist, because the ones I know say
>that if they get solutions that are contradictory, they first check the
>input for errors and then rerun the program.

OK, re-run at least the last 7000 years and **take better notes*** this
time!

>Contradictions are NOT proof
>of falsehood, they only speak to the need for further research.

You are taking a very narrow semantic view. Kevin means that if your
hypothesis results in contradictions, it is false. That is good science.

If experiments, NOT undertaken to support or challenge a hypothesis,
result in contradictions, then, yes, more experiments are indicated. And
MORE GRANT MONEY!!!!!!!! (;-)

> IF all
>scientists had the view that you have we would NOT be able to communicate
>this way and bumble bees would not fly.
>
Pardon? Whatever scientists might say, bumble bees DO fly. 

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