(January 8, 2016 at 4:16 pm)Jörmungandr 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.
No, the crackpot ideas of today often turn out to be the crackpot ideas of tomorrow. The key word there being 'often'. Crackpot ideas don't often turn out to have merit. Period. If you meant to say that they sometimes turn out to have merit, you would have been on firmer ground, the only question being how often is 'sometimes'. I would argue that it is rarely.
Yeah, the earth is round not flat, man can indeed build a heavier than air craft, we will go to the moon, traveling past the speed of sound, wireless global communication, moving pictures, Pictures! yeah, all of that was always thought possible by mainstream 'thinkers' of their time.
The problem with toeing the line of 'non-crack pot thinking'? Nothing can possibly happen that hasn't already been accepted.
When you people refuse to question anything other than your 'doctrine of science and history,' you yourselves become the devoutly religious ostriches that burys their heads in the sand when something different comes along.
