As a scientist myself I have to chime in here. First, most new scientific discoveries are found by "a couple of scientists" ala Pasture, Fleming, Einstien, etc.. It usually takes the radical loner to break out of the scientific box.

Second, "majority of scientists blah blah blah". Quite frankly, once you get out of their narrow field of study most scientists don't know their head from there @$$ (me included). It's kind of like saying "a majority of plumbers agree on why the N.O. levees failed". A good article on this can be found here , though being from the Wall Street Journal I sense you may not trust it...

To me it boils down to we only have truely accurate data for a VERY short period of time compared to the history of the Earth. Making assumptions based on this data (especially in light of conflicting data!) leads to erroneous results. What did Prof. Dumbledore say to Harry? Something like, "I am a very smart and powerful man so when I make a mistake it's usually a very big one."

I'd write more, but I'm going camping instead. A nice (though not unusual) cool front has blow in here in Houston and I want to take advantage of it. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

-Blast