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RE: Because I Said So!

in #ramblerant5 years ago

We may derail this conversation beyond repair from here, LOL!

Thing is, the geologists do give their arguments for a spheroid Earth with a molten center, and they are verifiable. They make accurate predictions, too. I haven't yet seen a flat earth claim or hollow earth claim that could withstand scrutiny.

The evolutionary biologists say humans and other primates evolved from a common ancestor, not that we evolved from apes. Whether there is merit to the field is another matter entirely, and irreducible complexity combined with modern DNA/RNA genetic science seem to raise significant barriers to my layman's perspective, but don't mischaracterize an assertion in order to dismiss it.

Technically, physicists say there is a maximum speed of light in a vacuum, not that it is fixed. There were headlines a few years back about slowing light to a standstill in laboratory experiments. But they don't say, "just take my word for it," they publish their data and methodology so it can be tested.

The English language is always changing, and even a bit more than 200 year ago, the rules differed in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. It is fair to point out that legal usage differs greatly from colloquial usage, but that is just a subset of my concerns about the presumptions and deceptions of political authority.

The civil war was definitely about slavery. The South definitely seceded primarily due to slavery based on their own secession documents and rhetoric, but there were other issues which encouraged those outside the slaveholding aristocracy to support the cause, too. Meanwhile, Lincoln didn't fight to maintain the union in order to abolish slavery, he wanted to maintain the union for revenue purposes and nationalistic pride.

Few things are as simple as school teaches, and politicians lie, but that doesn't mean everything taught in school or uttered by government bureaucrats is absolutely false.

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