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To: drjimmy

Yes, and now that he is dead anyone can say anything about the theory. What is funny is that NatGeo actually published this article with so many tidbits like:

“Bretz was making arguments, and no one was going into the field to see anything,” Baker said. “They were just countering his arguments with theory.” And because scientists are first and foremost human beings, they’re loathe to change their theories or their minds because of mere data.

...But that might just compound the error, because it neglects the fact that scientists almost always favor their own theories over others’, and rarely are those theories completely right....

...The authorities in the field were invested in a particular theory, and contrary evidence was dismissed without an adequate hearing...

But yeah that was the 20th century, good thing for us that we can sleep like babies in the 21st century - you know, since all of our scientist are 100% accurate and honest now.


26 posted on 03/09/2017 11:23:08 AM PST by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: VaeVictis
Yes, and now that he is dead anyone can say anything about the theory.

Except before Bretz died, he accepted that there had been more than just one megaflood:
This wouldn’t have come as a complete surprise to Bretz. By the early 1950s he’d noticed that some scabland features appeared to be more weathered than others, and in his last paper on the subject, in 1969, he argued that there had been at least seven scabland floods.


30 posted on 03/09/2017 12:17:53 PM PST by drjimmy
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