| Will everyone wanting to deny the tested and reviewed findings of
science please return to the 17th Century? Do not stop at the
Enlightenment. Those wanting to continue to explore, question, make
errors, correct errors and move on - please stay seated and try to
think critically. The Unified Field Theory may or may not be your
reward.
-A. Nonny Mouse.
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| From Mike the Mad Biologist:
The other thing we evolutionary biologists don't do
enough of, and this stems from the previous point, is make an emotional
and moral case for the study of evolution. Last night, I concluded my
talk with a quote from Dover, PA creationist school board member
William Cunningham, who declared, "Two thousand years ago someone died
on a cross. Can't someone take a stand for him?"
My response was, "In the last two minutes, someone died from a bacterial infection. We take a stand for him."
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| I don't believe there is a god. I don't necessarily believe in a lack of gods (there's a difference between the two). I kind of hold on to the lack of active disbelief because I like the idea of gods so much. And, who knows but that there might, by some incredibly rare possibility, be one or more gods, defined as sentient beings of great power (where "power" is defined as the ability to make things happen, and "great" has yet to be defined but should be definable, and at the least implies a lot more than humans have).
I like to pretend I'm a god. Pretend is a key word here. Usually Greek or Japanese, but I'm studying Hawaiian mythology now.
I don't think that the existence of a god has any explanatory power or the likelihood of making our lives or our worlds better. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that I actively disbelieve this.
So, explanatory power or no? What do you think?
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| I'm moving again. Dad says the main problem is that my new place smells like cats, which obviously isn't a problem for me, since I can't smell. But I guess I won't have any guests over until I move again.
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