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Old 30-08-2010, 08:44 AM
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Just a very brief comment and observation here.

Several years ago, perhaps 15?, I borrowed a book that discussed some new theory about the formation of galaxies etc. I thought it seemed interesting, so sat down to read it. Within the first chapter, the author had taken so many leaps of faith, extrapolating his thoughts from simple observations, like how simple static electricity on a comb can overwealm the gravitation of the Earth, to apply this on a galactic scale, where the net charge is now likely to be very close to zero, and yet has no problem in maintaining that the effect would overwealm the effects of billions of solar masses....hmmm. There were more leaps of faith in the early parts of this book than I could accept....

I returned this book after reading no more than a couple of chapters as I figured I had better things to do with my life than waste it on a load a tripe, after all, I still had to organise my toenail clipping collection but size!

In hindsight, I believe this may have been an "EU" book.

It seems the "EU" theory fits in will with "ID" and the Moon landing conspiracy.....eeeeeW! To me, they all seem to have a similar grounding in "evidence".
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