cristian_gavrilescu, it appears that you lack imagination. Sad.

Can you objectively demonstrate that there are only two choices?

(Be careful! Pay particular attention to both the words ‘objectively’ and ‘demonstrate’. There is only ONE reasonable answer. Let’s see if you can figure it out.)

As a side note, when you are replying to someone here, it’s advisable you use their name. It reduces the potential for confusion.

cristian_garvilescu, nope, I won’t. You came here of your own accord. You made assertions. It is completely reasonable for me to insist you back up your assertions with demonstrable and objective evidence. They are pretty big assertions, so for them to be accepted, overwhelming evidence needs to be presented. Otherwise, you are merely engaging in jibber jabber.

cristian_gavelscu, quit lighting fires elsewhere and demonstrate your assertions!

@cristian_gavrilescu

there you go getting ahead of yourself again

Why should I waste my time telling you?

You have already shown your contempt for science. You will not respect a scientific answer.

Others will reply to you as a kind of comic relief. Please don't think that your claims are respected just because people will play with you.

cristian_whatever, Mendeleev was raised a xtian but left it and identified as a deist. Get your facts right.

I sense English is your second language and you might not understand the real meaning of the word "deduction". It does not mean a "guess", "a stab in the dark" or a "feeling". The Oxford University Press Dictionary defines "deduction" as being "the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle".

While researching the properties and atomic weights of elements for placement in his periodic table of elements, Mendeleev came across some anomalies. In several instances he could not place known elements in the expected atomic number order due to their chemical properties conflicting with families of elements already in place. In three cases he created blank spaces on his table and declared the elements for these spaces had not been discovered but nonetheless described their chemical properties in detail. The three elements, gallium, scandium and germanium, were discovered in his lifetime and he had accurately described their properties.

In other cases he swapped the order of elements despite their consecutive atomic weights in favour of their chemical properties. Tellurium, atomic weight 127.61 should come after Iodine weight 126.91. Mendeleev swapped their order which put them into the correct arrangement according to the grouping of chemical properties. Tellurium shares similar chemical properties with Selenium which is above in the same "family" while Iodine, now sits in the column under Bromine with which it has similar chemical characteristics.

Both these circumstances were deduced from the scientific method, that is, scientific calculations and observations Mendeleev had made. It was a scientific deduction, an "inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle". He wrote about how he came to these conclusions and never mentioned praying for a solution or god telling him the answer. He deduced the facts from collected measurements and observations, in other words "science".

You can learn more about science and why it has been so remarkably successful in explaining how the reality we share works. Its an amazing story that puts fantastic myths about gods and demons in the shade.