[Taxacom] Seed plants of Fiji

[John Grehan]

I'm going to be away for about a week and maybe unable to comment
further until then on this or other responses. The difference between
panbiogeography and religion is that panbiogeography makes novel
predictions about the empirical world, and these predications have been
successful. But Mike, you need to get over Croizat.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Michael A. Ivie
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:13 PM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Seed plants of Fiji
> 
> I have been following this, but finally have the piece of info needed
to
> understand:
> 
> John Grehan wrote:
> 
> > They neither help nor hinder if one accepts that biogeography
> >
> >constitutes an independent research program with its own methods and
> >principles. That is true of panbiogeography, but it may not be true
of
> >all other methods. There are geologists who have suggested such
> >structures as I have talked about, but you wont see them by just
looking
> >at a map of the Pacific.
> >
> >
> If something is totally independent of everything else, and relies
only
> on internal logic, not on consistency with other sources of
information,
> it is called RELIGION,  which is consistent with "Panbiogeograpy," the
> holy scripture of which is Croizat's wonderfully ambiguous and totally
> unreadable (except by the faithful) books of the same title.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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