Science

[ladyphoenixia]

A week or so ago, the UAC cutoffs were released. For those who aren't abiding in NSW and may happen across this entry, after the completion of High School and the statewide exams, everyone from that grade is issued a UAI based on their marks for different subjects, how those subjects scale, etc, which serves of a ranking of where they stand

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[jukeboxhound]

*raises her glass in a toast*

Thank you. Thank you. While I'm hardly an officially recognized scientist, I was raised by a mother with a degree in medicine who encouraged constant questioning, a never-ending search to find out the answers for myself. Not only will people sound proud of doing poor in maths, but the same people consider asking a question to be a sign of idiocy - as though pretending to know the answer is any better. My study is in religious philosophy, and I can't even begin to number off all the times I've heard blatantly fictional or lying sources be taken as absolute truth on a matter.

I wish I could tell you why people seem to think so poorly of science, or why it should even be considered separate from their lives. Hell, given this and other instances of unbelievable stupidity, it's almost as though something is reaching through our subconscious to make us kill ourselves off and finally leave the rest of the world alone. I can't say I'm entirely against that thought.

[ladyphoenixia]

Oh yes, those people are infuriating, and ridiculously defensive if you call them on it. Most of my experience with religion is that it has a terrible tendency of influencing otherwise intelligent people to believe idiotic things. Like my physicist friend who is also a young earth creationist, or another christian who thinks that because she doesn't understand evolution, then she's not going to make a judgement on whether creationism or evolution is true.

I imagine that religious philosophy would have an abnormally large amount of people claiming that because their favourite minister/priest/bishop says something, it must be true, because they're obviously speaking the word of god. I don't envy you that.

And I'd agree with you, if not for the fact that there's still a minority of people who are genuinely intelligent and worthwhile. Although perhaps shrinking. But who knows, maybe there'll be a new renaissance to recover from the present Dark Age of science.