Talk:The Cosmic Serpent/Archives/2020/February

Stub classification
The book is classified on the back cover as "Science/Anthropology" but I doubt it could be considered science; even the author admits this is the case. Unfortunately, I cannot find a better stub classification at this time. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 02:37, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Using philo-book-stub instead. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 08:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Changed to nonfiction-book-stub. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 00:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I see that users are still trying to add the "science-stub" classification. The book is categorized as "science" on the back cover, but it is actually not a science book. A good theory must fit the known facts, predict new discoveries, be falsifiable and parsimonious. Narby was able to collect some data, but this "theory" is neither falsifiable nor parsimonious. I admit that Narby raises good questions, but the answers he proposes lie outside the paradigm of science. For example, many of the explanations Narby and others like him suggest border on unexplained phenomena that can only be described as extrasensory perception in the crudest sense of the term. The scientific community does not accept these explanations, and to date, there is no good way to test the results that Narby reports. Viriditas (talk) 12:51, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Cosmic serpent.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)