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06-29-2005, 07:15 AM
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Who said this?
I vaguely recall reading a quote in a highschool science class, where someone (I think it was a greek philosopher) claimed that because nobody could predict the movement of the planets, that was proof that they were controlled by the gods.
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06-29-2005, 07:53 PM
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The ancient Greeks COULD predict motions of the planets that were were approximately correct. |
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06-30-2005, 07:10 AM
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So nobody said that? Maybe it was a fictitious quote, meant as an example of God-of-the-Gaps. But I was pretty sure it was attributed to a specific person. I wonder what I'm misremembering.
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