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Old 10-December-2008, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by A.DIM View Post
Indeed.
Reviewing history we find much of what was once accepted as fact proved wrong.
Knowing this, why would anyone in his right mind think that what we know today won't be disproved tomorrow?
Actually, since scientific method became established, very few "accepted truths" were proven wrong. Some were found to be incomplete, but not wrong -- Einstein's theory of gravity does not negate Newton's Einstein's theory of gravity, rather the latter is a subset of the former. And even that is more an exception than a rule.

Not to put too fine a point, A.DIM is being full of it.
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