Re: Expelled: If you don't believe in holy physics dogma ; you're fired!

"Bill Miller" <billmillerkt4ye@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Phil Holman" <piholmanc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Bill Miller" <billmillerkt4ye@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Richard Henry" <pomerado@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Interesting.  In order to sup****t your contention that no discussion
>>> of currently-orthodox scientific thories is permitted, you list
>>> several theories that were formerly orthodox and were abandoned when
>>> they were shown to be defective.
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>>> Yes. And that is the point. HOW MUCH FARTHER ALONG MIGHT MANKIND BE
>>> if these dogmatic "laws" had not been jammed down the throats of the
>>> "thinking cl*****?" It took people of intelligence, personal courage
>>> and incredibly high character to FINALLY shake these defective
>>> concepts off of the tree of dogma.
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>> Hmm, I'm not sure that these things were ever a significant pacing
>> item.
>> As for "how much farther along might mankind be?" Well, if you
>> subscribe to the notion that there would have been rapid
>> technological development, how about...... closer to extinction!
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> I'm afraid I do not share your nihilistic viewpoint. Free men, through
> free enterprise and free expression have accomplished more FOR
> humanity in the last century than was accomplished by all the
> dogma-restricted centuries after the Roman Empire collapsed.

That was more to do with many, many series of technological innovations
from the industrial revolution rather than your so-called lifting of
restrictions. "HOW MUCH FARTHER ALONG MIGHT MANKIND
BE?"..........you tell us.

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> I'm personally sorry for anyone that looks at the glass of human
> accomplishment and sees it 20% empty rather than 80% full.
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Where do you get that? I'm not the one dissatisfied with the rate at
which science and technology have progressed. I'm happy with a glass
that is 80% full. You on the other hand appear to be disappointed
because it isn't 90% full.

Phil H