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Percy
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Message 1 of 4 (39804)
05-12-2003 12:11 PM


A friend just sent me this link to a page where the nature of quack theories is carefully characterized without any reference whatsoever to the Creation/Evolution debate:
--Percy

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roxrkool
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Message 2 of 4 (39890)
05-13-2003 1:03 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
05-12-2003 12:11 PM


quote:
A quack will often reply that his ideas have evidence, just not the kind accepted by "science."
Reminds me of the time a man came into our exploration office with a briefcase full of *gold* cobbles (they actually looked like river rock painted with gold spray paint) and told us his rocks were 25% gold.
When I asked him for some assay results, he told me that no lab in town had been able to measure any gold, but he is able to recover the gold by using a very special assaying method - the oldest scam in the books - and if we were willing to lease his property, he would fill us in on his secret.
Uh huh....

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Mammuthus
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Message 3 of 4 (39903)
05-13-2003 4:15 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
05-12-2003 12:11 PM


Great link Percy...but there is one little mention of evolution
"An example of this is Social Darwinism, whereby evolution by natural selection of organisms is assumed to work as well to social institutions."
I believe I hear some "quack-ing" in the evolution forum...by someone named after NaCl
Cheers,
M

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lpetrich
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Message 4 of 4 (41145)
05-23-2003 5:34 PM


Gold has a density of 19.3 g/cm^3
Rocks typically have a density of around 3 g/cm^3
25% by volume: 7.1 g/cm^3
25% by weight: 3.8 g/cm^3
(by number of molecules would depend on how one defines a rock-mineral "molecule" -- each metal or silicon ion?)
It should be easy to measure the density of those alleged gold-containing rocks. Measure their masses. Measure the masses of the amount of water displaced. Divide.
If it was good enough for Archimedes, it's good enough for me.

  
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