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Serious scholars claim that there is no such thing as progress and assert that science is but a collection of opinions, as socially conditioned as the weathervane world of paris couture. The empirical spirit on which the western democratic societies were founded is currently under attack, and not just by such traditional adversaries as religious fundamentalists and devotees of the occult. Timothy ferris audio books, best sellers, author bio. In his book he provides a widerange report of current research on cosmology, the study of the universe, and its trends going into the 21st century. A stateoftheuniverses report 1997, a popular science.
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