Re: open letter to the Google company, on the value of the scientific groups

António Marques wrote:
All that, however, has nothing to do with your pile of junk. Because most of your pile of junk isn't even in a form that can be considerer to be meaninful propositions. For instance, you don't offer any hypothesis on *how* your pile of junk became the various modern languages you think it did. It's just not enough to say that your ancestors came from Antarctica - you have to say how they made all the way to Swissland.

Oh, don't ask him for that. When he does that, we get garbage like Hittite developing laryngeals because how else were they supposed to expel from their throats the sand that blows in that region?

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It's as if we had a drawing by Leonardo and it had been drawn over so many times that any trace of the original painting had been lost. You may claim all you want that your particular idea of what the original drawing might have been is the correct one, but that's just whim - because all the 'evidence' you can accumulate in favour of your hypothesis works equally well for any another drawing. To bring it closer to home, what's there in your 'Magdelenian' that makes it any more the ancestor of modern european languages than the ancestor of Mayan or Bantu?

Because it's HIS hypothesis, of course!

From an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus

< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYDiPizDIs >

Host: Now, Miss Elk - Anne - you have a new theory about the brontosaurus.

Anne Elk: Can I just say here, Chris for one moment, that I have a new theory about the brontosaurus?

Host: Uh... Exactly... What is it?

Anne: Where?

Host: No! No, what is your theory?

Anne: What is my theory?

Host: Yes! [getting peeved]

Anne: What is my theory that it is? Yes. Well, you may well ask what is my theory.

Host: I am asking.

Anne: And well you may. Yes, my word, you may well ask what it is, this theory of mine. Well, this theory, that I have, that is to say, which is mine,... is mine.

Host: I know it's yours! What is it?

Anne: ... Where? ... Oh! Oh! What is my theory?

Host: Yes! [Furious]

Anne: Ahh! My theory, that I have, follows the lines that I am about to relate. [starts prolonged throat clearing]

Host: [under breath] Oh, God... [Anne still clearing throat]

Anne: The Theory, by A. Elk - that's "A" for Anne", it's not by a elk.

Host: Right...

Anne: [clears throat] This theory, which belongs to me, is as follows... [more throat clearing] This is how it goes... [clears throat] The next thing that I am about to say is my theory. [clears throat] Ready?

Host: [wimpers]

Anne: The Theory, by A. Elk [Miss]. My theory is along the following lines...

Host: [under breath] God!

Anne: ...All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine and what it is, too.

Host: That's it, is it?

Anne: Right, Chris!

Host: Well, Anne, this theory of yours seems to have hit the nail right on the head.

Anne: ... and it's mine.

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