Comments | jizzmatic2000: This Island Earf.

jizzmatic2000

This Island Earf.

Dec 31, 2009 14:04

Problem:1) People don't like being told their lifestyle is fucking things up for the rest of us. This dislike is negatively effecting America's perception of science and moderation to the point that a large portion of the country's population regularly denies factual data and takes solace in a deity ( Read more... )

rednecks, mars, globah wah wah

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igorxa December 31 2009, 20:12:39 UTC

In that order, right?

jizzmatic2000 December 31 2009, 20:20:31 UTC

Yeth.

I get the joke -- I giggled -- but that's also how we'd realistically git er done.

igorxa December 31 2009, 20:32:49 UTC

I think the problem is that people don't understand science and religion answer different questions. They are not meant to prove or disprove each other. One answers the how, the other the why. That's actually my main problem with Richard Dawkins. He's an atheist, and that's all fine and good, but he doesn't have to be an asshole, too. Turns out that's my problem with Christian fundamentalists, too. Carl Sagan was an atheist, but he wasn't a dick about it. He had his own spirituality, some would say. We have to learn to separate science and religion so that reason once again will have its rightful place in our public thinking.

Srsly, though, green NASCAR? Shit, I think I can get behind that.

jizzmatic2000 December 31 2009, 20:44:40 UTC

I hope didn't sound like I was directly attacking spirituality in that. I've actually had to deal with more acerbic atheists than deists in my life. Belief that a more powerful being is going to literally save you from destroying yourself is silly though.

But yeah, dude. Space NASCAR and Martian H3s! Cohagen can't stop the rock.

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