I feel that if you are going to make the claim and wish to defend it then it is incumbent upon you to at least attempt to propose some measure by which the truth of your claim might be judged. Otherwise you are merely engaging in wordplay and not rationality.
All I was doing was raising an interesting theory and linking to those who do defend it.
I feel as if I had mentioned that the sky looked kind of blue today and wasn’t that kind of interesting, and the person standing next to me immediately said, ‘oh, blue—physiologically or by wave-length? Are you taking into account Rayleigh scattering? For that matter, is it blue by absorption or reflection? Let’s see your numbers, chap, I think you may be having me on.’
You ask some interesting questions, but I see now that any reply is just going to lead to an in-depth argument/discussion which I am not equipped for and don’t really feel like having now. If you want to argue about, I’ve already pointed to a relevant forum.
EDIT: To the downvoters: consider what you’re saying by downvoting - ‘I disapprove of someone explicitly withdrawing from a conversation, and would rather that one side simply never reply and leave the other person hanging.’ Is that really what you would prefer?
All I was doing was raising an interesting theory and linking to those who do defend it.
I feel as if I had mentioned that the sky looked kind of blue today and wasn’t that kind of interesting, and the person standing next to me immediately said, ‘oh, blue—physiologically or by wave-length? Are you taking into account Rayleigh scattering? For that matter, is it blue by absorption or reflection? Let’s see your numbers, chap, I think you may be having me on.’
You ask some interesting questions, but I see now that any reply is just going to lead to an in-depth argument/discussion which I am not equipped for and don’t really feel like having now. If you want to argue about, I’ve already pointed to a relevant forum.
EDIT: To the downvoters: consider what you’re saying by downvoting - ‘I disapprove of someone explicitly withdrawing from a conversation, and would rather that one side simply never reply and leave the other person hanging.’ Is that really what you would prefer?