On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:59:27 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

Here is how science (or the truth in time) works.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --
Arthur Schopenhauer -- German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

Now history shows this is indeed correct. Now wouldn't it make more
sense to checkout anything that is ridiculed or violently opposed,
instead of automatically discounting it? Thus we wouldn't have to go for
decades or hundreds of years in ignorance? Now doesn't that make a lot
more sense?

Yes, they laughed at Galileo and they laughed at Columbus. But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown. By the way, Columbus was wrong.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA