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Ed Cryer  
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 More options Sep 21 2012, 7:16 am
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From: Ed Cryer <e...@somewhere.in.the.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:15:11 +0100
Local: Fri, Sep 21 2012 7:15 am
Subject: Re: Latro vs Venator?
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John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2012-09-18 21:21:02 +0000, Ed Cryer said:
>> The best I've come across so far is the woman who firmly believes that
>> the story of Adam and Eve in Eden is not an allegory at all; but a
>> historical record of real events, in which A was a gardener to a
>> mighty prince (changed to God), E his wife.

> "Did they catch the elephant again?"

> "Did who?"

> "The anthropologists."

> "Oh, my dear boy, you are misunderstanding. This happened long before
> there were any anthropologists."

> "Then how do they know?"

> "Well, as to that.... I see that you have a very crude notion of how
> science actually works."

Orthodox scientific method

1. Study the subject well, posit an explanatory hypothesis.
2. Test the hypothesis against conflicting theories.
3. Does it cover the known facts? Does it have wider ambit than other
theories?
4. Make sure it makes a testable prediction; which could possibly
falsify it.
5. Publish it; await comments of others in the field; await results of
others repeating your experimental data.
6. Await confirmation of major prediction (as with gravity bending light
for Relativity Theory).
7. Get Nobel Prize.

New and amended version.

1. Dream up a theory and publish it.

Ed


 
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