Matt ([info]darklordmoeser) wrote,
2005-08-17 16:29:00
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Science Vs Pseduoscience.... FIGHT

So the new tenth planet seems to be shaping up pretty well... they've started putting the really big telescopes to looking at it, and it looks at least as big as Pluto, if not much bigger. Pluto is about 2.2km across, and depending on how Planet 10 is composed it could be about 2.6 km or upwards of 3km across, which is about half the size of Mars (I think). Which means all those horoscopes are totally screwed. Bwhahaha. There's been this tenth planet out there fuxoring it for so long.

Also, if any of you heard a shout in the neighborhood recently, it might result from President Bush's support of Intelligent Design. God, I do so hate this man. I can't even stand to read the article past the opening paragraph. It physically hurts me. He went too bloody Yale... don't they teach you anything there? At least the Definition of science would suffice. I mean shit... my favorite soon to be primatologist was thinking of studying there. One of the worlds best chimpanzee researchers works there. You'd think some of that sort of stuff might filter down to the politicing bastards. And you know what... teaching ID won't help the republican party. It won't help America. It won't help your religion. It will souly make you stupid. Cause the science is what makes the medicine that keeps you fit, keeps your car running, and makes those bombs that you do so love to drop on mulsim countries all the time. And you can't reject the theory of evolution without rejecting geology, chemistry, and physics with it.

*sigh* rant off.

In the mean time, I have many lovely kitties to look after. All of them are doing fine so far. Here's to hoping they stay that way.

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[info]truthchase

August 17 2005, 21:12:20 UTC 6 years ago

"Cause the science is what makes the medicine that keeps you fit, keeps your car running, and makes those bombs that you do so love to drop on muslim countries all the time."

Indeed!
We should hang out soon!

[info]darklordmoeser

August 17 2005, 22:21:46 UTC 6 years ago

Indeed.
My weekend is pretty empty thus far, maybe you might be interested in dinner or something friday or saturday. Hopefully I won't be feeling crappy like I am tonight.

[info]kibarika

August 17 2005, 21:32:33 UTC 6 years ago

> It won't help your religion. It will souly make you stupid.

This is an inspired misspelling. I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, I just love how incredibly appropriate it is.

I'm going to create my own theory of how things got made, and teach it to everyone. It will be like, "Once, a giant cat spit up a hairball, and it became the universe."

[info]mitherial

August 18 2005, 04:52:33 UTC 6 years ago

"Intelligent Design" is religion masquerading as science.
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
By: Keith Lockitch
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11055

The author of this article and I went to IKEA today...

[info]green_luna

August 18 2005, 15:00:20 UTC 6 years ago

I always liked my high school bio book for this topic. The evolution chapter started out as there are three different theories on how we got here. Intelligent design, something about aliens (I can't remember what they called it), and evolution. The only one which has any scientific proof is evolution; therefore, we will ignore the other two. (Note that I paraphrased, as I no longer have the book to look it up.)

Julie

[info]vroomsplat

August 19 2005, 07:14:38 UTC 6 years ago

And you can't reject the theory of evolution without rejecting geology, chemistry, and physics with it.

Note that I agree with you, but just to play Devil's Advocate ("or maybe a God's advocate" - Larry Godlberg), why not? Let's see how well the scientist can support his pronouncements.

[info]darklordmoeser

August 19 2005, 13:11:13 UTC 6 years ago

Well... Biblical creation has a lot of odd stuff in it, but generally, the whole idea of a young earth (~5 to 10k years) doesn't hold up with astronomy, as the speed of light is constant, and so the very distant visible objects would never have time to reach us, and likewise, all that has been observed in astronomy and cosmology points to a very old universe, which quite much more complexity than a biblical one. The dating of radioactive isotopes in deposites of ancient rock and in meteorites recently fallen to earth tend to point to the formation of our solar system at around 4.6 billion years or so. Likewise, archaeological and palentological finds have been found of both H. Sapiens and our ancestor species going back hundreds of thousands of years (and millions for some of the older species, like Lucy, who was about 3 million if I recall). Of course, creationists object to the validity of the dating of radioactive isotopes... but thats rejecting a fair amount of physics which also has grounding in nice things like nuclear power plants, atomic bombs, and fallout. Plate tectonics also predicts a much older earth, as the strata of sediments can go back a very very long way, with some rocks being found that are nearly a billion years old. Some creationists claim that they were laid down by the great flood, but this doesn't hold to how sediments form during floods (the would form a big layer, not many individual layers). Fossils are also a big no for creationism.
Lets see... thats physics and geology, as for chemistry, bio chemistry has backed up the physical reality of what happens to creatures as they grow old, and how DNA changes from mutations, and that our DNA codes for proteins that in turn exicute our continued existence.
There is a lot more details I could get into, but thats what I can think of off the top of my head.
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