Jack Sargeant@1:379/12 wrote on the 12.02.98 about 
"Skeptics are sometimes wrong":
JS>Galileo was persecuted by the skepics in the church. 400 years after
JS>he was tormented, kept under house arrest, and otherwise ruined, he
JS>was eventually vindicated, and his beliefs upheld.
What kind of skeptics were there in the church? They were no skeptics 
but believers. If they had been skeptics, they would have tested his 
evidence, tried out his experiments with the pendulum, looked through 
his telescope to see the moons of Jupiter, the rings of saturn, they 
would have tested the evidence and made their conclusions.
They ignored the evidence, and didnīt test it. Thatīs no skepticism 
but exactly the opposite.
JS>The moral of the story is, apply your skeptism with care and sincerity.
Of course skeptics are sometimes wrong. Who on earth could be always 
right?
The question is: What is more reasonable: testing or believing?
Till then,
Heiko
P.S. Keep watching the skirts. ;-)
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