Sir Isaac Knew Tons

Quantities aren't really quantities, even if we give them names. Words define the thing, even though the thing may be unknown.

Sir Isaac Newton was fully aware that we could use words to define phenomena which were in fact unknown. Words are defined by what we use them for. It's a sublimely subtle form of induction.

Absolute Dates

Radiometric dating has been contrived in such a way as to make it look as if the "dates" it calculates for rocks are absolute. Absolute means that the dates are separated on a timescale which is known.

Stellar Spectroscopy

Stellar spectroscopy conveniently ignores the possibility that stars are reflecting sunlight and incorporates itself into one of the most intricate examples of circular reasoning ever devised. Circular reasoning is a problem in science where people make up fiction that suits their narrative, then use the fiction to rationalize more fiction. A good example is heliocentricity. …