BS: Got Science?

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 06:08 PM

Indeed LH. All the little ducks in a row.

Thank goodness for odd ducks.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:57 PM

Yes... ;-) Nothing like first impressions, is there? People will defend the familiar against the unfamiliar with all the fury of a mother bear defending its cubs.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 05:50 PM

Little Hawk

There was a theory advanced years ago in Byte Magazine about which text editor was the best. It was called "The little baby yellow duck syndrome" - the first one you see is what you judge all other by and must be the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 01:24 PM

Most people believe in whatever they want to believe in and they disbelieve in whatever they want to disbelieve in, usually with no actual work or investigation of any kind at all, but merely by a brief jerk of the knee. ;-) The beliefs they have were normally acquired from their parents, their society, their teachers, their peer group, the books they're read, and whatever else they've been exposed to in their very brief sojourn upon this Earth.

Like parrots, they are terrific at repeating what others have told them.

And they will yammer at you all day long about it, because they'd like you to believe the same things they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 01:01 PM

That's why I won't say people don't believe in evolution, I say they deny it.

I laughed so hard a noodle came out my nose the other day watching Family Guy do their take-off on North By Northwest, and when Mel Gibson steps off Mount Rushmore and falls to his death, and Lois asked why he just stepped off, and Peter answers...

Silly, Christians don't believe in gravity!

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 10:35 AM

an obvious mickey take,foolestroupe....but since you mentioned dinosaurs,perhaps you could tell us what the latest evo take is on the blood residue taken from the 65 million yr old dinos?

maybe we should restart the YEC thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 10:25 AM

Foolestroupe... that is hilarious!

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 09:58 PM

One MUST accept the FSM, and I hope that He touches you with His noodley goodness. He has even been photographed by genuine astronomers.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 06:40 PM

Scientists Prove Jesus Walked with Dinosaurs

Sigh ...

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 06:13 PM

Oh, dear! Another meaningless comment.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Wesley S
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 06:06 PM

If the neo-cons have their way science will be on the endangered species list. It's so elitist.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 05:34 PM

Two causes for global warming-
1- Periodic cycles of warming and cooling are well-known in geologic history.

2- Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has contributed pollutants and gases increasingly to the record, preserved in ice cores taken in both the Arctic and Antarctic locations.
Some argue (with less and less basis as time goes on) that the latter is not yet a contributor to global warming- but the presence of the pollutants is enough to cause serious misgivings about our lack of control over what we put into the environment.

Science has contributed immeasurably to our advances - but some of the byproducts of those advances are deleterious to the environment and must be considered and controlled.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 05:23 PM

This is all pretty much self-evident, except for those who do not understand science.

Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
From: TIA
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 05:03 PM

"Science does not explain everything in the universe."...yet.

It is the only way that the explanation for everything in the {Natural} Universe *can* be found.

Subject: BS: Got Science?
From: saulgoldie
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 04:51 PM

More fact:
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-march-3-2011-mark-w--moffett


Go to 14:50 and watch from there, not that Colbert is that hard to watch, anyway. (The bit about Ben & Jerry & Jimmy and Stephen is really cute. Perhaps a little too sweet for diabetics, but...)

The bee die-off is s-c-i-e-n-c-e. One does not "believe" in science as one "believes" in the tooth fairy, unicorns, or the flying spagetti monster. One "accepts" science, because it is about a rigorous process of hypothesis, hypothesis testing, and conclusion based on the process that lead to reproducable events based on that conclusion. "Science" (in quotes) is when one *starts out* with the *conclusion* and "finds 'facts'" to support that preconceived conclusion. Surprise, surprise! I was "right" all along! NOT science.

Science does not explain everything in the universe. That is an ongoing process. But it explains a lot of things things pretty well in terms of the available evidence.

Don't like science? Then don't partake in any of the things that science has given us. Start right here, and ditch your computer. Stop listening to music on your CD or MP3 player. Stop accepting any benefits of modern medicine. Basically, refuse to partake in anything that humans have developed in the last 20,000 years; go back to the stone age.

Global climate change due to human activity is also science. I double-dog dare anyone to find a *genuine* study that was not funded by a special interest that followed true scientific principles that contradicts this.

Saul