Re: [tied] Re: "Odin of Asgard"

Amen to that. One could only add, since Sir Karl's name has been taken in vain, that Popper's message was actually this: if you immunise your theory against refutation by non-believers -- e.g. by special pleading (such as claiming privileged status for your sources of data), or by refusing to accept generally recognised methods and standards (don't like the counterevidence? blame the instruments) -- you cease to do science. A statement that cannot be falsified is not an invincible "working hypothesis" but rubbish.

Piotr

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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: "Odin of Asgard"

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote: > But, apart from that, I wish you the best of luck > with proving your > theory. > > Torsten *****GK: Dear Thorsten, You don't seem to get it. My point is that given the kind of "proof" that you require to "disprove" your Odin fantasies I can successfully make any kind of ridiculous claim while contending that there is no "proof" against it. Were someone to claim that extra terrestrials intervened in the Mithridates matter, including at some juncture a total substitution of forged records to confuse future historians, there would be no way of "disproving" this...What you are doing is just an enormous waste of time. You don't even seem to realize that the Zalmoxis passage from Jordanes that you cited is an utterly confused hodge podge of no value whatever to historians except as minor evidence for its author's biography and psychology. I leave you on the "field of battle" with your multiple equine cadavers. Amen.**** > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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