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Dr SF - reading Durant on Rome recently we see that the thoughtful were mostly concerned with philosophical, artistic and legalistic debate; also with military subjects, history and so on. There were many Gods and as many points of view. There is none of the dogmatism of "settled science" we have to suffer with these days. Nobody was arrogant enough to assert they knew the size and age of the universe for a fact. The reactionary orthodoxy of modern science feels more like that of the catholic church at the time of Luther than anything else. And we have been using that language here to describe it. Science is no longer the science of exploration and discovery that it once was, it is - as you say - a religion and it is an intolerant and monolithic. In the interests of the freedom of thought therefore I would like to quickly mention a few of my own speculations about the nature of some large subjects that modern science believes are settled. I think the extinction of the mammoths is strong evidence that the earth's axis changes location every fifty thousand years or so. If the previous ice caps had both been over the water this would have lead to the increase in rain and snow fall necessary for high snow fall and rapid freezing that must have happened to kill them all so quickly amd preserve their bodies. I think planets are what remain of stars when the fires go out. I do not believe all stars blow up or in the black hole dogma. Don't worry I have loads more and I am sure many of us do as well. Your recent post shows detailed medical knowledge. Could you do another on genetics and in particular what on earth the infallible science lot seem to believe the "genome'' is? And on genetics in general? I have not been able to get any working concept of what they seem to think they are on about with this one. Thanks again and looking forward to your next post.

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Excellent - one of your best

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