From the ignorance of the fundamentalists, O Lord deliver us.
...wow, that's good enough to be part of my sign, if you get the connotation.
"If one needed proof that a guitar was more than wood and string, that a song was more than notes and words, and that a man could be more than a name and a few faded pictures, then Robert Johnson’s recordings were all one could ask for."
From a marketing perspective, it's not difficult to see their point of view. Most profit organizations are mostly focused on business rather than long-term societal changes.
It's fucking stupid; I mean, the audiences that see these films are probably more religious than not, and (let's face it) most of the time I've gone to see an IMAX movie with others, at least for them, it was for the bloody special effects (Example: I went to see an IMAX movie with a religious group of Mormons. They are all young-earthers, and the movie was geology-related, but they enjoyed it). Could this mean, that a significant part of the fundie population in the IMAX areas is thinking about what they saw?
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” -Jean-Luc Picard
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." -Margaret Atwood
Maybe they should just stop using all the things that technology and science grants. Let them go back to having no electricity, and tilling the Earth with cattle.
That NOS Guy wrote:Maybe they should just stop using all the things that technology and science grants. Let them go back to having no electricity, and tilling the Earth with cattle.
"Just as God intended"
You mean with a plow? That's a piece of technology, as well. So's the development of agriculture, to be more general.
No, if they want to work their anti-science and naturalistic fallacy to the hilt, they should return to hunter-gatherer society.
we ought to deny them cancer treatment, or gene therapy, or antibiotics, or anything that has been influenced by the evolution of viri and bacteria, and the science of genetics.
"If one needed proof that a guitar was more than wood and string, that a song was more than notes and words, and that a man could be more than a name and a few faded pictures, then Robert Johnson’s recordings were all one could ask for."
I suppose those idiots are already useing the film withdrawl as "proof" <cough, cough> that the museums know Evolution is on shaky ground.
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
That NOS Guy wrote:Maybe they should just stop using all the things that technology and science grants. Let them go back to having no electricity, and tilling the Earth with cattle.
"Just as God intended"
You mean with a plow? That's a piece of technology, as well. So's the development of agriculture, to be more general.
No, if they want to work their anti-science and naturalistic fallacy to the hilt, they should return to hunter-gatherer society.
To be properly consistent, we shouldn't have them give up all science and technology. We should just have them give up the science and technology that is the direct fruit of science done by the scientific method. Using a plow doesn't require thinking scientifically, so it's allowed. Coming up with the theories of genetics that let us make good hybrid crops does. Just look at Lysenkoism for an example of what happens if people reject science in that area.
Ditto for lots of physics (and related things like chemistry), everything else in biology (and therefore medicine), and all the technology that comes indirectly from the scientific method these people disagree with so vehemently.
It's like they think of the scientific method as something that's only valid when it's producing technology in ways that doesn't contradict what they've already chosen to believe. Then suddenly its proven track record of being the best way to truth is ignored.
sketerpot wrote:To be properly consistent, we shouldn't have them give up all science and technology. We should just have them give up the science and technology that is the direct fruit of science done by the scientific method. Using a plow doesn't require thinking scientifically, so it's allowed. Coming up with the theories of genetics that let us make good hybrid crops does. Just look at Lysenkoism for an example of what happens if people reject science in that area.
Nice little arbitrary line in the sand there. But you're wrong about plowing not requiring scientific thinking. Its direct observation that plowing a field makes farming better than just randomly scattering the seeds around. It requires observation to determine that water is required for the plant to grow. It requires observation to realize that the seeds are the sourse of the plant in the first place. And what is this "observation" I keep talking about? Why, its SCIENCE!
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart