05-20-2009, 11:58 PM | #11 | |
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Interesting that the video I saw earlier didn't show the long tail. Nor did it point out that lemurs today have opposable thumbs. What a load of hogwash. |
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05-21-2009, 12:21 AM | #12 | |
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05-21-2009, 12:41 AM | #13 | |
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Plus you've exalted scientists to be holy men, beyond the petty temptations of fame, recognition, funding, or jobs. Proving the point that people believe somehow scientists are above us all. The fact is, have you studied the skeleton yourself? No, all we get are the opinions from the scientists. As i said, in the video, I didn't even get to see his tail. I wasn't told lemurs have opposable thumbs now. All I was fed in that video was hype about textbooks for the next 100 years, that this was the holy grail of archaelogy and then stuff about the thumb and fingernails etc. I had to actively reject the POV being pushed. It wasn't a neutral description of the data - "we found these bones and here they are." No, instead we got an INTENT shoved down our throats. Last edited by Yorick; 05-21-2009 at 12:44 AM. |
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05-21-2009, 02:52 AM | #15 | |||
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It wouldn't be such a big deal if people did not hold up certain "scientific" worldviews any higher than other so-called "nonscientific" religious worldviews, especially when those religious worldviews may be based on firsthand experiences, rather than received knowledge. That's all. I like fairness and equal standards. Faith is faith. You use faith when you step on an airplane. You use faith when you believe in evolution, and you use faith to believe in God. If there were more mutual respect and acknowledgment of these similarities of process, the world would be a happier place. |
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05-21-2009, 03:41 AM | #16 | |
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I mean, one can reason away anything with the "faith" argument. Take eating, for example. You might say that you've been told that if you don't eat, you die, but that you don't take these doctors and scientists at their word, and since you have never died, you have chosen not to believe it and so, you stop eating. In a way, you would never be proven wrong because you'd not be around to see the results when you starve to death. Because you'd be dead. So, even when this faith fails you, it protects you from the truth, shields you with itself so you never know the number it did on you. In essence, blinding you. Now, why would anyone want faith to blind them? Because, as we see here in this example, it's comforting. To the extreme point where it helps us even avoid the reality of our own demise! Security, protection, warm and fuzzy feelings. Having blind faith in something expels the need to prove it, rationalize it, and thus, understand it. As humans, we are generally frightened of the unknown, but even pretending that we know about it (heaven, for example), will work for us.
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05-21-2009, 04:21 AM | #17 |
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Just to give a different twist to this debate: proof is in principle impossible on those areas that are unobservable due to underdetermination and Hume's induction problem.
I feel perfectly at liberty to state that evolution, which is strictly not a theory about the origin of life, only about ongoing processes within it, when extrapolated beyond what we've actually documented (I'll take for granted here that documentation does not yield 100% truth either) is similarly unobservable and thus unprovable. That said, it is interesting to see how much scientists preach which actually isn't proven, such as the sun being in the middle of the solar system (how much sense does that make in relativity anyway?).
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05-21-2009, 08:05 AM | #18 |
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Re: Missing link found?
Media hype, that's all it is. Scientists don't really know anymore than the day that they originally found it. Great article btw Firestormalpha.
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05-21-2009, 09:58 AM | #19 |
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OMG science is imperfect!!!!! :HORROR:
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05-21-2009, 11:09 AM | #20 |
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99% of the world's creation myths are indifferent to science, theory evolution, ect. It's patently incorrect to lump all creationists together as in contradiction to The theory of evolution or Anti-Darwinsim.
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