Posted: Apr 02, 2011 2:29 pm
pfrankinstein wrote:I'm simply asserting that because there are chiefly three broad types of domain [outer space, Earth, Intellectual] and chiefly three types of material [inorganic,organic, mind] that there are chiefly three types of selection.
Do Mars and Venus count as "outer space", and if so, does this not mean that Earth is being given a special status, as it belongs to a separate domain to which no other planet belongs? To put this another way, if Martians existed, can we not imagine a Martian version of you saying, "There are chiefly three broad types of domain [outer space, Mars, Intellectual]", can we not imagine a Venusian version of you saying, "There are chiefly three broad types of domain [outer space, Venus, Intellectual]", and so on?
That's a big problem for you, right there. A lot of what you say seems incoherent to me, but the small amount of coherence I've been able to extract from it seems to indicate that your theory effectively makes Earth the centre of the universe - unless you've explained this sloppily, and you just regard the surfaces of planets in general as being separate domains - in which case you need to work on it and come back.
To be fair, though, I don't want to get your hopes up. If you want this to be accepted as the next breakthrough in science, then this may not be the place to do it. Claims like this don't come to Rational Skepticism to get proved correct. This place is the sort of elephant's graveyard of bad claims. When a bad claim realizes that the end is near, wherever it is on the Internet, it finds its way here to die. You may think that it was your decision to bring your claim here, but in reality your claim knew that it needed putting out of its misery and, following some ancient instinct, made you do it.