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Thank you for sharing your opinion.
However, that opinion is not shared by the majority of person.
That's what you read... the assumption of "This test is going to work"? You honestly read that?
Again... there is nothing in black and white, from me, on the age of Mount Everest.
Are you listening to me? Or yourself?
I can tell you what I actually said though.
On Assumptions and Mountains
Carmala Nina Garzione is an American geologist who is Professor of Geosciences and Dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona. Previously, she was Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and prior to that she was a professor at the University of Rochester. She was awarded the 2009 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
The first paper I quoted, says this:
...scientists will have to re-evaluate tectonic processes that build high elevation plateaus, such as those in Tibet and the central Andes.
"These results really change the paradigm of understanding of how mountain belts grow," says Carmala Garzione, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences and co-author of both papers. "We've always assumed that the folding and faulting in the upper crust produced high elevation mountains. Now we have data on ancient mountain elevation that shows something else is responsible for the mountains' uplift."
Basic assumptions of science
- There are natural causes for things that happen in the world around us.
- Evidence from the natural world can be used to learn about those causes.
- There is consistency in the causes that operate in the natural world.
- In other words, the same causes come into play in related situations and these causes are predictable. For example, science assumes that the gravitational forces at work on a falling ball are related to those at work on other falling objects. It is further assumed that the workings of gravity don’t change from moment to moment and object to object in unpredictable ways.
Philosophical bias is the one bias that science cannot avoid
Scientists seek to eliminate all forms of bias from their research. However, all scientists also make assumptions of a non-empirical nature about topics such as causality, determinism and reductionism when conducting research.
The second article, says this:
...the team shows that parts of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California rose up surprisingly fast, over a period of just 1.39 million years — more than twice as fast as expected for the region.
I then said:
Why did I say that scientists gave an estimation on an assumption? Simply because... they did.
"We've always assumed that the folding and faulting in the upper crust produced high elevation mountains. Now we have data on ancient mountain elevation that shows something else is responsible for the mountains' uplift."
Scientists assume there is consistency in the causes that operate in the natural world.
You are mistaken on both.Scientists assume there is consistency in the causes that operate in the natural world.
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