Don Baccus wrote:
>
> At 08:23 PM 3/5/99 -0600, Eugene Kridler wrote:
> >Among the macadamia nuts there are splitters and lumpers. First one is
> >on top and you get used to it, along comes a guy trying to make a name
> >for himself and screws it up again. Back and forth: forth and back.
> >Lumping the Baltimore Oriole with the Bullocks Oriole and calling them
> >the Northern Oriole then splitting them up again as a case in point.
> >Then squabble, squabble, squabble. And so it goes, ad nauseum. E.
>
> All of science works this way. Without this squabbling,
> no increase of knowledge is gained. Taxonomy is like

Did not Neitschze say something like "There is no absolute truth, any
more than there are no eternal facts"

Ken
Salt Spring Island BC