Re: Galaxies without dark matter halos?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, greywolf42
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 

> I consider the probability minimal that the dogma 'just happened to be
> correct.'

The "dogma" has changed, motivated almost entirely by data.  No-one ever 
suggested that Omega was 0.3 and lambda 0.7 based on anything except 
data.  Thus, I would argue that the current standard model is primarily 
data driven.  Just because someone mistakenly elevates it to dogma 
doesn't make it automatically wrong.