Theos-Talk Archives (May 1999ar Message tt00100)

May 13th

Dear Gerry:

"Sad" because school we have been taught theories as though they
were facts and I have 60 years to look back on the changes made.

I would not like to be ever caught saying something was a fact
when it was not.

Have you looked into the evidence that de Quatrefages offered ?

I have no "beef" with pure observational and factual Science.  I
studied it in college and worked for a publisher of reference
level and college Scientific books (VAN NOSTRAND).

So I do respect truth in reporting and the bold assertion that
what is offered is TENTATIVE, something to use until a better
solution or fact supplants it.

Incidentally the climate now is far more subdued than the
authoritative one of the 30s and 40s

Dal


              Dallas TenBroeck
               dalval@nwc.net




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com]On Behalf Of Gerald
Schueler
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 7:49 AM
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject: Theos-World Is Observation Such a Bad Thing?


>>It covers areas that modern Science has not penetrated, because
they
are (sadly) still completely tied to the merely physiological
fossils
that are uncovered here and there, and on which they have sought
to base
their reconstruction of the antiquity and origin of man.>>

Dallas, I don't want to start yet another discussion, but I feel
I
have to say something here in defense of science. Science
tries to obtain facts, and then generates theories to explain
those facts. Fossils are facts. "Pudding bags" are theory.
Anything that cannot be observed has to come
under the heading of theory. Almost all of the SD is theory,
which we are all free to accept or reject until "proved" by
hard evidence. Science has not rejected the SD, so much
as it has simply been unable to produce any hard evidence
to substantiate it. Thus it remains theory. Why is this "sad?"

Jerry S.

















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