Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:36:52 -0500 (EST)
From: klo_mckinsey-AT-K12.MEC.OHIO.GOV
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: M-G: Confusionism and the power of Marxist analysis




On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Shane Mage wrote:

> Hugh Rodwell wrote:
> 
> "...no one would raise an eyebrow at the incredible accuracy
> of scientists' forecasts relating to the orbital paths of heavenly bodies
> or satellites, **or scientists' claims that they understand the processes
> involved.**"
> 
> I would not raise an eyebrow--I would flat out reject the claim.  These
> "scientists" claim such perfect understanding that they reject as
> "impossible" and "counter to the laws of nature" the overwhelming testimony
> of the ancients that they experienced terrestrial cataclysms (like the
> Biblical Exodus and the "Long Day" of Joshua) caused by the close approach
> of one of those "heavenly  bodies" that today pursue paths of perfect
> harmless regularity in the sky.  Their claims are like those of bourgeois
> social science--perfectly accurate about day-to-day trivia but completely
> impotent before catastrophic or revolutionary phenomena.
> 
> Shane Mage
> 

     Mage needs a lesson in common sense, not to mention the fundamentals
of science and logic.  Scientists are under no obligation to prove these
events did not occur.  Those who believe in them are required to prove
they did. Otherwise every crackpot, weirdo, hairbrained idiotic theory is
true until someone proves it is false.  If I say there are green men
living inside the planet Jupiter, I am required to prove it.  Doubters are
not required to disprove it.  According to Mage's warped logic, they do in
fact live there until someone proves they don't.  Hardly!  How on earth
could anyone possibly prove men do not live within the planet Jupiter? The
burden of proof lies on he who alleges.  That is axiomiatic to all science
and logical thought.  And until biblicists prove the Long Day of Joshua
and the miracles associated with the Exodus really happened, the latter
remain the myths they have always been.


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