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Uh-Nu-Buh said:
Evil Dave: sounds like you are well informed and have your mind made up. I'll respect that for the most part, but I can't let a few items go.
Newton's works on gravity and mathematics are over 70 years old. In hindsight, he was nutty as a pancake. A complete fruitcake.
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If you reread Evil Dave's post, he didn't attack all science older than 70 years, only "archeology and speculation". I don't know about archeology (my guess is that there was some serious archeology work done way before that, even though a lot very probably lacked enormously in seriousness), but he could very well be right on speculation.
But then, to attack him with examples of older scientific theories which are solid work is, at best, unfair.
Now I'll all let you go back to your usual flamewars.