[Wikipedia-l] pitching an idea

[David Gerard]

Wouter Steenbeek (musiqolog at hotmail.com) [050418 04:17]:

> You didn't get the point! Indeed, scientists are given a big authority, so 
> people, especially encyclopaedia-makers, use their theories to form their 
> opinion. So, in our culture, the view of scientists is especially favoured 
> among encyclopaedia-makers, because they are supposed to have justificated 
> their views by means of an elaborate dialectic process, not by dogmatic 
> tradition. On the other hand, for other people the Bible might have a 
> bigger authority. They form a different image of the world around us than 
> we do, and than most scientists do.


http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=2&articleID=000E555C-4387-1237-81CB83414B7FFE9F
was supposed to be humour ...


- d.