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Subject: Re: Earth Centered Universe
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Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 10:43:50 EDT
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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