Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

On Aug 13, 2:03 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Howcome the crackpots always compare themselves to Einstein and not to
(see just below) Darwin?

I do _not_ compare myself to Einstein,
I mentioned Einstein as a well known
example of a scientist, and a very great
scientist who didn't fear tell the world how
he developed his revolutionary theory.
In the begin were imaginations. As for
Newton: millions of people observed apples
and other fruit fall from trees, but only Newton
had the deciding idea that led him to postulate
his laws of gravity. All observations are nothing
without an idea. Ideas count, and they are the
children of intuition and imagination.

No. Then you must continue to gather evidence that supports it.

Yes, of course, once intuition and imagination
and ideas led you to a scientific law, you trust
on it and apply it and get results, either good
results that confirm your laws, or bad results
that contradict your laws.

Have you never heard of Charles Darwin, and why he published *Origin
of Spcies* when he did?

He was not the only one who worked on evolution,
someone else was about to publish a book, and
so his friends urged him to publish his own work.
Why did he wait so long? My personal guess is
that he knew well that his model of evolution can't
really explain the origin of species, he failed in
explaining stasis, and the eye was a nightmare
for him, no way to explain the origin of the eye.
Meanwhile we know about deep homology,
similar features occur in eyes in phyla that had
been separated for five hundred million years,
and if Darwin's model of evolution were true,
and if it were all there is to evolution, deep
homology could not exist. Darwin knew about
some shortcomings of his theory, hoped to find
a solution of his theoretical problems, and this,
I believe, was the reason why he published his
work so late, some thirty years after the voyage
of the Beagle.

An idea never "turns into" a scientific law. Laws can only be
discovered by gathering a great deal of observational data.

Millions of people observed apples and other fruit
fall from trees, but only Newton had the deciding
idea that allowed him to formulate his laws of
gravity (as I said above).

A pity you've never taken the trouble to read my published work on the
origins of writing.

I read the first page. Almost the whole first
page, where you finish off with the Vinca script,
and that was it for me. You completely leave out
visual language as origin of writing.

No, it does not.

Yes, it does. Next to the opening of the Genesis
it says 4004 B.C.

But you do not study even one language, let alone the "world treasure
of our languages."

I study language since I was a boy,

"Information" is not "retrieved via" anyone's "sound laws." "Sound
laws" are observed regularities -- descriptions of phenomena.

Of course. Michael Janda is a PIE scholar,
his tool are sound laws, and he retrieves
information about a far past, for example
his studies of the Rigveda and of Greek
tell him that the Milky Way was considered
a heavenly abode in the Ice Age. I came to
the same conclusion via cave paintings
(especially Chauvet and Lascaux).

Do stop talking about your Uncle Fester. No one knows who this is.

Even Wikipedia has a page on Richard
Fester, and also Douglas G. Kilday seems
to know him (also he called him Uncle Fester).

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