Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: science society Darwinism/ open versus closed systems Message-ID: <464@baylor.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:07:42 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.464 Posted: Sun Aug 18 23:07:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:45:06 EDT References: <374@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 35 I won't comment on the rest of your article, but the following is pure BS: > may later be viewed as correct)? Every gradeschooler has heard > how the now heralded theories of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, > Newton, and even Einstein (as well as countless others in other > fields) were met with closed doors by the seats of knowledge of > their day. Any gradeschooler who has heard this has heard wrong. Copernicus and Galileo were rejected by the church, not the scientific establishment (weak as it may have been in comparison). Kepler came up with a simpler theory that solved problems the old, epicyclic, theory couldn't. This is the first I have heard that he was rejected out of hand. Newton was a respected scientist and a member of the highest scientific academy of the day. Einstein recieved the Nobel Prize for work performed before he discovered the theories for which he is now famous. The only people who closed their doors on him were the Nazis who were suspicious of "Jewish Science". The only person who might fit your description os Gregor Mendel. As it turns out he actually made up most of his data out of whole cloth... it's no surprise he remained in obscurity. What well known unsolved problem does your theory explain... something that nobody else has come up with a consistant explanation for? -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076