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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS
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To: marcos who wrote (3282)8/7/2000 5:16:59 AM
From: E. Charters   of 3744
 
You are right about scientific fashion. People grasp at floaty straws and the like while drowning in a sea of scientific "fact".

Like the people who support replacement theory and deny that Sudbury ore formation may be sedimentary or at least related to near surface syngenetic processes. They form the magmatic prejudice and support it with all kinds of research designed to keep their jobs and justify their self respect. Of course when they cannot find mines with that theory it just tells them that they are hard to find. They would be better off with no theory at all. Eventually new discoveries made by later generations provide evidence to supplant the hidebound ideas of old and new boys scratch their heads and wonder aloud how they could ignore all that obvious stuff, until the professors tell them to be quiet and write down their new truth.

But people have mentioned that continents do drift in past generations. Their was no alternate theory. Now measurements of movement, paleomagnetism, divergence of species and other post and pre cambrian geology support the theory. It explains so many things that it is extremely hard to reject.

Scientific theory that enables economic exploration does not support the feeling that lawyers should be able to tell mankind what kind of useful activity to engage in.

EC<:-}
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