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Comment author: JulianMorrison 12 May 2008 02:53:51PM 1 point [-]

Might one cause of the slowness be the concept of "discovery"? It has entirely too much of Moses coming down the mountain with tablets, and entirely too little of "first draft". Scientists would be tempted to genuflect - even the theory's originator.