On 10/6/2011 3:01 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> What worries me is the possibility of a theory not being taken seriously
>>> because nobody likes it, rather than because the theory doesn't work...
>>
>> That has happened before, and it will happen again.
>
> Any concrete examples?
>
> Every example I know of where a theory wasn't believed because it seemed
> too silly, eventually facts won out.

Creationists vs Evolution? Creationists won't take evolution seriously 
because they don't like it. Then they invade the educational system to 
get the theory of evolution removed from textbooks and the like.

Of course, that is a local phenomenon.

-- 
~Mike

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