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I have attempted to establish a repository for two main things that I hold dear - thoughts and events. It might seem bland, to say that this will be where I record some of what I concede in ways of cognitive insights and summaries of events and experiences, but trust me that in the boundary of selflessness, I will try to make it an exciting read. If at very least a read that you dont feel like moments were stolen from you. Journalism is not a forte, just a way.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-Richard Dawkins
-Richard Dawkins
There are several sources of anti-intellectualism. Religion is an obvious one, of course, since being intelligent and learning makes one less likely to accept arguments from authority, and to question unproven assertions. An intelligent, learned man has no need for religion - therefore, we don’t want any intelligent, learned men
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Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass, American Abolitionist, Letter to an associate, 1849
Remember the Effort of Others
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What is Science?
The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge.
How do we define science? According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world."
What does that really mean? Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge people have gained using that system. Less formally, the word science often describes any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it.
What is the purpose of science? Perhaps the most general description is that the purpose of science is to produce useful models of reality.
To the literary person the question may seem merely silly. The humanist is taught that science is a large collection of facts; and if this is true, then the only scientists need do is to see the facts. Such a person then pictures colorless professionals of science going off to work in the morning into the universe in a neutral, unexposed state. They then expose themselves like a photographic plate. And then in the darkroom or laboratory they develop the image, so that suddenly and startlingly it appears, printed in capital letters, as a new formula for atomic energy.
Historian tell us that science is a collection of facts.
Evolution is not a fact but a theory.CAN NOT BE PROVEN.
Creation is also a theory. But you can prove thru the bible, that your,great,great,great,WAS NOT A Monkey.
Two of the biggest weaknesses of evolutionary theory are:
1.There is no adequate explanation for the origin of life from dead chemicals. Even the simplest life form is tremendously complex.
2.The fossil record, our only documentation of whether evolution actually occurred in the past, lacks any transitional forms, and all types appear fully-formed when first present. The evidence that "pre-men" (ape-men) existed is dubious at best. So called pre-man fossils turn out to be those of apes, extinct apes, fully man, or historical frauds.
When God made the Heavens,and the Earth,He made time,and the appearance of time.
What came first the chicken or the egg? 'The chicken'
God made fruit given plants,trees.
Man was made as an adult.
Things would look older then they are.
Noah's flood:Water covered the whole Earth.I can use science to prove water did cover the Earth.
Thank you for your english lesson of the obvious. Science, then, is the pursuit of knowledge and knowledge cannot be taken without evidence. THAT - and only that - is what the true ramifications of science are. Evidence, unobstructed evidence, is the basis of science and the basis for biological, physical, chemical, geological, anthropological, environmental, ..., understanding and awareness. Your belief in a mythical creature, not unlike Zeus or Hades, is justification that you are actually willing to NOT use evidence, NOT use knowledge and NOT base your belief on anything but what someone else told you.
Not an intelligent position, most would say.
I urge you to prove anything with the aide of the bible. You are using and archaic mythical novel, a fiction novel, as your proof? Understandably you will see my diminished repect for your views, blind as they are. One book, written years ago, fueling hatred, condemnation, mysogynistic atrocities (should I go on and list the actual items?!?) is not grounds for proof.
Biological evolution does not propose that my, your, Darwins, anyones, great-great-great-etc ancestor was a monkey. Nothing could be further than the point of that theory; to use such a straw-man argument as the thesis of your belief is absurd, and declares your intellectual impotence. It is, however, unfortunately common for religious apologists to do so.
You say that evolution is not proven, and is simply a theory. You (correctly) suppose the same for religion and god. Your support for such claims is that Evolution cannot be proven; god can be proven because of the bible.
Now, if I were to take this one step further, I could (and in fact will) suppose through the same obtuse logic that because I also have a 'book' that outlines my belief (Origin of Species) it is also proven. Why does a book prove your case, when evidence and myriad scientific investigation and supported theory does not support mine? Your logic, while mostly lacking, does not win an arguement or clarify any position. It simply proves that you take the literal word of the bible because you were told to do so as a child, and this has corrupted your ability to learn for the remainder of your life (at least up until the point of you writing this post).
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