Subject:
            Comparing George Hammond to Gregor Mendel
        Date:
             Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:21:47 GMT
       From:
             George Hammond <ghammond@attbi.com>
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[Hammond]

  Gregor Mendel is famous for being the first to discover
if 2 genetic types A and B mate they will produce
progeny in the ratio AA +2AB + BB.  IOW, if a black rabbit
and a white rabbit have a family of 4 rabbits, one will
be white, one black, and 2 will be grey, statistically.
This is known today as the basic "law of genetics", and
is a simple result of mathematical probability acting on
genes.

  Interestingly, this famous discovery was published
by Gregor Mendel and it was totally ignored by science until
40 years after his death... an account of the situation is
given below:

  Gregor Mendel, the "Father of Genetics" was born in 1822
to a relatively poor peasant family. As an adult he entered
the Augustinian monastery in Brunn. He also went to study
science and mathematics at the University of Vienna but failed
his exams to receive a degree. He later returned to the
monastery where he became an abbot and spent the rest of his
life. At the monastery, he started investigations of heredity
of plants at the monastery's experimental garden.
 In 1866 he published his work but it didn't take affect in the
science field until 1900, years after his death, when it was
"rediscovered" by European scientists.
  Mendel's paper, was written in German and published in, the
Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brünn. 115 copies
of the journal are known to have been distributed (Olby, p. 103),
and one even found its way into the library of Charles Darwin.
We know that Darwin did not read Mendel's paper (the pages were
uncut at the time of Darwin's death), though he apparently did
read other articles in the issue.
 Like Darwin, most of the journal's recipients seem to have been
uninfluenced by Mendel's paper.
 Gregor Mendel died in Brunn on January 6, 1884.

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[Hammond]
  It is said that history repeats itself, and the question of
whether Hammond's discovery of a "scientific proof of God"
is in fact another "Mendel incident", seems to be a real
issue, to wit:
 

1.  Hammond, like Mendel, comes from low class peasant origins.

2.  Hammond, like Mendel, is also highly persuaded of the
    practical necessity of Religion.

3.  Hammond, like Mendel, studied science and failed to take
    a PhD

4.  Hammond, like Mendel, spent many years in isolation, not in a
    monastery, but homeless shelters, flop houses etc., studying
    an obscure subject (Psychometry).

5.  Hammond, like Mendel, has made a "historic scientific discovery",
    a discovery entirely unanticipated by the scientific establishment.

6.  Hammond, like Mendel, is ignored by scientific authorities, and
    has only published one paper in an obscure journal.

7.  Mendel spent the remainder of his life bickering with the Church
    over religious matters, and died an embittered man.  Hammond
    likewise spends most of his time bickering with scientific hecklers
    on the Internet science newsgroups, (not available to Mendel).
 

So.. the question is, is it possible that the discovery of the
worlds first true "scientific proof of God" is slated to run
the same gauntlet as the discovery of the law of genetics..
another "Mendel incident"?  And just how close is the similarity
between Mendel and Hammond?

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