if you footnote your emails.... you might be a geek. On 9/6/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/6/07, G Money wrote: > > > > I disagree. > > > I don't. :) Not arguing for Creationism or whatnot- but I know what MikeD > is > talking about. > > Scientists LOVE to challenge the known "standard", it's what drives many of > > them. If a scientist could find definitive evidence that evolution is > > bunk....oh man, they'd be world famous! What the ID crazies fail to > > comprehend, is that the reason evolution has never been seriously > > challenged > > is not because scientists aren't trying, it's because they aren't > > SUCCEEDING. > > > Here's my stock experience that gets at the heart of what Micheal is getting > at, I believe: In high-school, I was in a "special" program, and we had > some > high-faluting scientist come give us a speech one time- Anyways, they open > it up for questions at the end, and a fellow student asks: "Is faster than > light > travel possible?"- to which the Scientist says "No- this isn't star-trek"!! > > The problem isn't limited to scientists, in fact, it's part of the human > condition- > that's where the Tao and those eastern "religions" come in- 'specially > like, > the ones that tell you not to focus on the "Material" (not just matter, but > ideas) > > We, in general, don't like to have our worlds shaken up. It's much nicer to > believe there is rhyme and reason and whatnot- easier on the noggin. > > Show me compelling scientific evidence that evolution is bunk, and I'll > > become a skeptic in a heart beat. I have no emotional ties to > > evolution.....it's just reality. It's just "fact" as we know it to be. > > I've > > never understood why that is such a difficult concept for some people? > > > Fact is in effect much more fluid than one would hope; is the part that > people have trouble with. > > How come it took years and years to accept things we call "fundamental" > or "fact" now? > > Heck, I /love/ G[funkyO]del, and it took like, I don't know how long until > people just accepted that bit about truth and proof. Or whathaveyou. > > A lot of physics guys don't have a problem reconciling science and the > special whatnot some people call religion or whatever. And this was > years ago*- It's when you try to replace the search for "how" with the > answer to "why" where you run into troubles. I think. > > I think. =] > > *hundreds if not thousands by now =p > > >
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