[extropy-chat] NASA and the Big Bang "theory"

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/5/06, Tomás Arribas <shogyo.mujo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2006/2/5, Anne-Marie Taylor <femmechakra at yahoo.ca>:
> >
> >
> > Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > religious issue: the Bible implies that the world is flat, with four
> > corners.
> > Just curious but couldn't that have meant that 2000 years ago somebody
> came
> > up with a scientic hypothesis that the world is flat with four
> corner?.  I
> > think
> > that would seem like a very good probability based on the information
> they
> > had at that time.
> > Anna
> >
>
> Of course. The problem arise when you try to apply those 2000 years
> old theories to the present world with modern knowledge.
>

Platonism seems alive and well in modern physics.

Dirk
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