XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.consciousness, talk.origins   
   From: jonf@fleming-nospam.com   
      
   On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC), stevefct    
   wrote:   
      
   >You know better than this. Your quote, 'When faced with a personal   
   >account of an event that violates physical laws it is entirely   
   >reasonable to suspect that the account is false.'   
   >   
   >That is exactly what all the experts in physics first thought when the   
   >initial results of testing for the speed of light in different   
   >directions came back and the speed of light seemed a constant no matter   
   >what. Know what the experts did? When they thought in their little fixed   
   >mental cages, experts who were not mentally agile enough to break out?   
   >They first concluded the testing results had to be wrong. SO MUCH YOUR   
   >CONCLUSIN ABOUT RUDY HERE, isn't it?   
      
   Yup. And, initially,  they were reasonable in thinking so.  But, after   
   they repeated the experiments in various ways the truth came out, as   
   it essentially always does in science.   
      
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