Atheism and the existence of peanut butter

[Anomalocaris]

I don't think we'll see eye to eye on this - the existence of lumiferous aether as the absolute and omnipresent medium seems (to me) to have alot in common with gods and ultimate positions. I suppose as history, it's a good example of how an establishment can fuck up by sticking to it's fuckups..and that's something.

luminous ether was not a fuck up.  1. it was a reasonable and falsifiable hypothesis.   2. when it was falsified, position changed, old hypothesis rejected and new ones consistent with now expanded pool of evidence constructed. 

for 1, it may have some commonality with some god “hypothesis” at some times.  but so what?    every scientific hypothesis has that in common with some god “hypothesis”.   

but for 2,  that is what separates wheat from chaff, snd science from wishful thinking.   The people who embraced liminiferous ether embraced 2.   the purveyors of the god “hypothesis” will resist it to the bitter end.