Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Earth Centered Universe Message-ID: <418@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 10:43:50 EDT Article-I.D.: sbcs.418 Posted: Tue Jul 19 10:43:50 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jul-83 10:09:31 EDT References: <5161@cca.UUCP> Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook Lines: 25 I agree with Charlie Kaufman when he says that Science searches for the "best" explanation for a set of facts, and that scientific knowledge is subject to growth and change. I'm not sure I see his point when he asserts But science will never "prove" [e.g. the "Flat Earth Society] wrong; that's not what science does. Maybe what I mean when I say "prove" is different from what you do, Charlie, in which case an argument is meaningless. I sketched my notion of "proof" in an earlier reply to your original article; at this point, maybe you ought to define your concept of "proof", and we can go on from there. I admit to not being an expert on the Flat Earth Society; presumably, they claim that the earth is flat. If this is indeed the case, I would imagine that disproving their claim would not be too difficult, with evidence ranging from Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth, to photographs of the planet from space. Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook