(September 15, 2016 at 7:28 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: Oh, he disagrees with it alright, nobody could believe that electromagnetism worked differently before James Clerk Maxwell and accept scientific validity. It's just that he's too chicken to come out and admit it, just like he's too chicken to admit his fundagelical christianity.Man...when you get something stuck in your craw, you really get it stuck! For the third and final time, here is my original quote which you continue to misrepresent, and the history to back up my statement that it was considered magic before science figured out how it works.
(August 16, 2016 at 11:17 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: And what was electromagnetism before scientists explored, worked out the math and explored the mechanics of it?
If you think current science is the end all/be all paradigm, you don't know history and you aren't doing science.
And now to back up my claim that electromagnetism was considered hocus pocus "magic" before it was scientifically understood.
http://www.howmagnetswork.com/history.html
The Greek & Chinese
The earliest discovery of the properties of lodestone was either by the Greeks or Chinese. Stories of magnetism date back to the first century B.C in the writings of Lucretius and Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD Roman). Pliny wrote of a hill near the river Indus that was made entirely of a stone that attracted iron. He mentioned the magical powers of magnetite in his writings. For many years following its discovery, magnetite was surrounded in superstition and was considered to possess magical powers, such as the ability to heal the sick, frighten away evil spirits and attract and dissolve ships made of iron!
I'm a fundamentalist alright, far more fundamental than any cultural/text based religion.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder