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Author Topic:   Devolution (from The Fall) and "No New Information"
Perdition
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Message 26 of 52 (518552)
08-06-2009 2:33 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Smooth Operator
08-06-2009 12:58 PM


Re: Back to the topic
What evidence are you talking about? Show me the evidence.
What do you consider evidence? It seems to me, as I read through your threads, that what you can see, the way things seem simply by looking at them, is considered the higest level of evidence to you. The claim that the sun moves around the Earth is ultimately "proven" by the fact that it looks that way from where you stand.
The fact that it would look that way to someone standing on any of the other planets, and in fact, it does look exactly that way to the rovers on Mars, would suggest that the way things look are often not the way they really are.

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Perdition
Member (Idle past 3260 days)
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From: Wisconsin
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Message 31 of 52 (518585)
08-06-2009 4:06 PM
Reply to: Message 28 by Smooth Operator
08-06-2009 3:00 PM


Re: Back to the topic
Or it could mean that Mars is simply orbiting around the Sun.
Ok, so Mars orbits the sun. How do you know? Maybe Mars is the center of the universe and we orbit the sun which orbits Mars. How would you differentiate between these two options?
Some scientific articles or a book, or something.
Do you think it would be hard to find any article which says the Earth orbits the sun? We could go all the way back to Copernicus and find references to that phenomenon. However, curiously, whenever people post those things, you refuse the acknowledge their relevance or strength. So, again, what would you like to see in those articles that would make you consider the possibility of your being wrong. What would those articles have to say?

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