Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> No not really, feel free to doubt it. if you do then you must have a  
> reason to do so, which implies you have another theory

  Once again, that is completely flawed logic.

  There's no law in science which says that you must have an alternative
theory in order to reasonably doubt an existing theory.

  "I don't know an explanation for this, and this presented explanation
seems too implausible to me" is a perfectly valid way of thinking, even
scientifically. You don't need an alternative theory to be able to do
that in a completely rational and valid basis.

  Take any unsolved question in science, which science has yet not an
answer to, and present the theory "it happens because invisible gnomes
do it from inside the Earth". Even if the scientist doesn't have any
alternative theory to that, it's still completely valid for him to doubt
that presented theory.

> (unless you're  
> saying that you don't like a theory as it doesn't explain everything, in  
> which case welcome to a permanent state of not liking things).

  Is this some kind of philosophical question now? Do you get an
existentialist crisis if there's something you don't know how and
why it works?

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                                                          - Warp

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