John Smith I wrote:
wrote:

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If you think that is incorrect, it should be easy for you to name
a theory that was validated by multiple, indendent, reproducible,
experiments and later discarded.



Just to get you started, mind you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolet...tific_theories

Let's do the physics ones:

Aristotelian theory of gravity: no experimental confirmation; discarded.

Classical mechanics: experimentally verified; superseded and still used
within appropriate boundaries.

Classical electrodynamics: experimentally verified; superceded and still
used within appropriate boundaries.

Ether: no experimental confirmation; discarded.

Caloric theory: no experimental confirmation; discarded.

Emitter theory: no experimental confirmation; discarded.

Persistence of vision: no experimental confirmation; still debated.

Let's do astronomical and cosmological theories:

Ptolemaic system/Geocentric universe: no experimental confirmation;
discarded.

Copernican system: no experimental confirmation; discarded.

Newtonian gravity: experimentally verified; superseded and still used
within appropriate boundaries.


--
Jim Pennino

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