From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:463cf588$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>> In short, dismissing something called a Theory simply because it is
>>>> *called* a theory is intellectual "Luddite-ism".
>>> Aye, but thinking of it as fact is the same.
>>>
>> What has either got to do with "belief"?
>>
>> Belief has no requirement for facts whatsoever.
>>
>> I do not need to believe that the earth is anything other than flat.
>>
>> Until man went into space & esp into orbit I could dismiss all evidence
>> to the contrary as "a theory".
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
> Not really Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) calculated the circumference of the
> earth. He also measured the tilt of the Earth's axis and the distance to the
> sun and the moon.
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&? His theory stated all the above & was shown to be correct.

Many commonly observable things are only described via theory from light to
gravity to the population of the night sky.

E=MC2 was a theory till Hiroshima.


However E=MC2 did not involve belief in a tooth fairy.

Adam

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