11-07-2007, 01:19 PM
Quote:I am also not quite sure why so many people feel like history is being insulted by saying it's not a science. So what? Why is that bad? Not every useful human endeavor has to be scientific, nor is it somehow made less valid or useful because it can't use that word.Well said.
I get the distinct impression nobody bothered to click on the link to a description of 'scientific method'. :wink: I also notice that it was the scientist who bothered to comment on the historical theory I put, and ironically none of the historians
'Experimental archaeology'; is that one field of archaeology and even history that has a scientific method?
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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