con-sen-sus : n. aka circle-jerk
One hundred years ago, Alfred Wegener proposed the breathtakingly obvious theory that continents moved and at one time were joined.
http://www.scientus.org/Wegener-DuToit.jpeg
For 60 years, 97% of scientists refused to accept the overwhelming volume of evidence. Even though they could see land moving along faults, and they could see seashells on mountain peaks – they couldn’t believe that land moved.
“Utter, damned rot!” said the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.
“If we are to believe in Wegener’s hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the past 70 years and start all over again.” Geologist R. Thomas Chamberlain
“further discussion of it merely incumbers the literature and befogs the mind of fellow students.” Geologist Barry Willis
Consensus science is the equivalent of a bunch of twelve year old girls spreading gossip about someone they barely know. The Wegener Institute now disgraces the name of its founder.
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This will even throw a monkey wrench into today’s consensus.
http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html
Looks like typical conspiracy theory writing to me. Not much basis to what the author is saying.
You can’t actually have a consensus on a research field that’s deeply uncertain and still at a very early stage in it’s development. “Consensus” either becomes an oxymoron or consensus means “the best guesses and opinions of experts”. Historically, experts guessing what might or might not turn out to be true about things that are presently poorly understood, does not have a great track record.
Will Lloyd Pye’s Intervention Theory replace Human Evolution Theory? 🙂
http://www.lloydpye.com/essay_interventiontheory.htm
I love to use that on hardcore evolutionists when they start to call me names when they can’t come up with anything. My biggest beef with this human evolution is that it seemed to be purely about a fight against church/creationism that they would do anything to discredit them. I often wondered if they actually did pure unbiased science over human evolution without politics involved. I must admit that Pye brings up some good points though. It is still a crazy theory…
It’s funny, since even the Church acknowledges science. Athiests don’t want to admit that.
The chromosome story is very interesting. Thanks for posting the link, I didn’t know about Pye before. I’m an evolutionist but I don’t know how hardcore.
Related: Nuclear war in ancient india
Atomic Warfare in the Mahabharata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK5qG6bKLCM&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Steve, don’t trivialize the problem continental drift caused while it was being fleshed out. Wegener’s short fall was not being able to explain the mechanism of the process: “Scientifically, of course, Wegener’s case was not as good as Galileo’s, which was based on mathematics. His major problem was finding a force or forces that could make the continents “plow around in the mantle,” as one critic put it. Wegener tentatively suggested two candidates: centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the Earth, and tidal-type waves in the Earth itself generated by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon”.
He realized these forces were inadequate. “It is probable the complete solution of the problem of the forces will be a long time coming,” he predicted in his last (1929) revision. “The Newton of drift theory has not yet appeared.”
That Newton was of course Tuzo Wilson and I was lucky enough to have him for a guest lecturer in the ’70s but Tuzo was modest enough to think that he was lucky to be in the right place at the right time … like Newton, Tuzo also thought that he “stood on the shoulders of giants” of which Wegener was the principal.
Similarly, climate alarmists reject the well established relationship between extended solar minimums and cold temperatures – because they can’t explain it. It is a mistake to reject valid observation due to a lack of understanding of the cause.