On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:12:21 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:38:48 -0400, JohnH
wrote:

There's nothing wrong with disagreeing, and there's nothing wrong with
presenting the viewpoint of many billions of people throughout the
world.

Science is not based on viewpoints and it is a mistake to get that
confused.

Um...er...huh?

All science is based on "viewpoints". What the heck do you think
drives scientific inquiry? One scientist's view is that Global Warming
is real. A different scientist looking at the same data calls
bulls**t. Openheimer felt that testing an atom bomb would set the
atmosphere on fire. Others didn't.

It wasn't until late in the 17th Century that the heliocentric -
geocentric argument was finally over when Newton finally developed his
universal Law of Gravitation - that one had been going on since
Archimedes and Pythagor despite all the evidence supporting
heliocentrism.

It was in the 20th Century that scientists believed that people would
die in horseless carriages because nobody could breath going faster
than 15 mph. Supersonic flight was impossible. Man coulnd't possibly
go to the moon. Remote controlled war? HA!!

Science is driven by viewpoints.