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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: The realm of physics, and the late Immanuel Velikovsky
Message-ID: <1181@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 10:32:13 EST
Article-I.D.: wucec2.1181
Posted: Tue Nov 12 10:32:13 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 08:20:06 EST
References: <457@imsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis
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Summary: Ted, go back to net.origins where you belong.

In article <457@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>               I  am  just  an  ordinary  businessman myself, and know very
>          little of physics.

	    So THAT'S why you believe Velikovsky's theories.  I knew
	there had to be some reason.

>          		       Therefore, when I read  or hear  about anyone
>          ridiculing  or  "debunking"  Velikovsky's  theories  because they
>          supposedly violate the "laws of physics", I can only assume it is
>          because they  think they know more about physics than Robert Bass
>          and Albert Einstein.  

	    Why do you find that so difficult to believe, Ted?  Do you
	think no progress has been made in the physical sciences since
	Einstein's day?  I notice in net.origins that you seem to have
	no problem believing that you know more about evolution than
	Darwin.  I believe I know more about physics than Isaac Newton,
	whose genius was arguably comparable to Einstein's, but I
	believe that only because I am familiar with his work and the
	work of his successors.  In any case, who believes in a theory
	is not nearly as relevant as whether it stands up logically on
	its own, which Velikovsky's theories definitely do not.  Ask the
	people in net.philosophy about the validity of arguments from
	authority, if any of them will talk to you.
	    Please restrict yourself in the future to net.origins,
	where people are patient (:-) and interested (:-) (:-) enough
	to listen to your babblings.
						--pH
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