(January 10, 2016 at 4:00 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 2:42 pm)athrock Wrote: My point is simply that the crackpot ideas of today often turn out to be the bedrock of mainstream thought tomorrow.
Emphasis mine.
I challenge you to justify this bold assertion.
If you had said "infrequently" I would agree, but that would be quite another thing, wouldn't it?
With minimal time and effort, I present:
Great Ice Ages. True.
Dinosaurs wiped out by asteroid. True.
Tectonic plate theory. True.
Big Bang Theory. Probably True.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1109/p18s02-hfks.html