[quote=Halcyon Dayz]Wegener literally died for science. He is a hero.
But when it comes to geology, he was a woo-woo who
accidentally
happened to be (somewhat) right.
Continental drift is now accepted because we can
see the continents
drifting. We also have a mechanism to explain it.
With all the thousands of crazy ideas going around, some of them are
bound to be close to the truth. But we only are going to
know if we
have data to support these ideas.
From Wiki on
Louis Pasteur:
"His
experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease."
(Emphasis mine.) Pasteur gathered evidence that proved an idea.
Ideas alone isn't science, and doesn't get us any closer to the truth.
BTW, it was
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who thought us about bacteria.
He did that by
observing them, as could anybody else with a microscope.[/quote
You are young, think you have knowledge you not given yet.
Anton more concerned with his lenses, you dug your own hole,
Pasteur did more than accept Antons observations of a microscope,
And Anton was very good in making lenses for microscopes. History
records it. Pasteur followed that up by showing a relationship between
bacteria and human health, Anton not concerned, his lenses showed
the bacteria, what they represented was not his concern.
Halcyon, if you want to succeed, you must evaluate better.
Science driven by reason and logic is one thing. Science driven by
hormones, is doomed to failure.
Nokton.