Not A Hobbit After All?

[Roy]

So some scientists are will to over look the facts to support their dogma.

Since you didn't reply the first time, I'll ask again:

What "dogma" do you think he is referring to?

Roy

[rogue06]

Your belittling of this discovery is the height of arrogance.

He's very smaug.

[HMS_Beagle]

Not the point of the thread.

This was:

So some scientists are will to over look the facts to support their dogma.

What is the point then? That a particular scientist with radical non-mainstream views offers his negative personal opinion of the rest of the scientific community who think he's not wrapped too tight?

Earth shattering news.

[seer]

Apparently.

Roy

I doubt it, do you have a PHD in this field?

[seer]

What is the point then? That a particular scientist with radical non-mainstream views offers his negative personal opinion of the rest of the scientific community who think he's not wrapped too tight?

Earth shattering news.

What there were a number of scientists in the link that questioned the results, not just Eckhardt.

[seer]

Since you didn't reply the first time, I'll ask again:

What "dogma" do you think he is referring to?

Roy

The dogma was that they wanted this to be true, that they had found a new species.

[Roy]

I doubt it, do you have a PHD in this field?

Which field? Paleontology? Population dynamics? Evolutionary biology? Arithmetic?

And what difference would it make? Do you think that in a disagreement the person with a PhD is correct?

Roy

[klaus54]

I doubt it, do you have a PHD in this field?

Credentialist, huh?


Not surprising for a PA YEC. You guys live in the controversies of frontier science.

Roy gave a good analysis.

Do you have an alternate hypothesis for Flores Man?

According to YECism, that population would have to be descendants of one of the sons of Noah.

Which one do you think?

[klaus54]

The dogma was that they wanted this to be true, that they had found a new species.

Big deal.

Calling it "dogma" is hyperbolic, so it's not surprising that a YEC would latch onto it.

K54

[seer]

Big deal.

Calling it "dogma" is hyperbolic, so it's not surprising that a YEC would latch onto it.

K54

Hey Idiot, did I ever claim to be a YEC?

[klaus54]

Hey Idiot, did I ever claim to be a YEC?

It's pretty clear that you don't understand science.

And all your posts in NatSci have certainly make you SOUND like a YEC.

So you accept how science works and the body of knowledge it's accumulated?

If so, you wouldn't be so quick to jump on the hyperbole of "dogma" in this article.

K54

[seer]

Which field? Paleontology? Population dynamics? Evolutionary biology? Arithmetic?

And what difference would it make? Do you think that in a disagreement the person with a PhD is correct?

Roy

Well Roy, you can reach Dr. Eckhardt here: [email protected] I'm sure he would like to see how neatly you destroyed one of his main points. Let us all know what he says.

[seer]

It's pretty clear that you don't understand science.

And all your posts in NatSci have certainly make you SOUND like a YEC.

So you accept how science works and the body of knowledge it's accumulated?

If so, you wouldn't be so quick to jump on the hyperbole of "dogma" in this article.

K54

The word dogma is the least of his points - the fact that some scientists hold on to theories in spite of facts.

[HMS_Beagle]

Well Roy, you can reach Dr. Eckhardt here: [email protected] I'm sure he would like to see how neatly you destroyed one of his main points. Let us all know what he says.

Considering that opinion piece was written in 2007 and virtually everything Eckhardt claimed back then about Homo floresiensis has turned out to be wrong I wouldn't be honking his horn too loudly.

[Jedidiah]

The word dogma is the least of his points - the fact that some scientists hold on to theories in spite of facts.

Note global warming. (Someone had to do it.)