On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > yeah, that boggles the mind. > > His idea is a pervasive one amongst the general population though...this > idea that if something can't be proven "beyond a doubt", that somehow this > means it's not science. The dumbing down of science education in this > country of the last few decades is probably partly to blame. >
What boggles the mind is that they are so quick to discount mountains of evidence because something cannot be proven 'beyond a doubt', but have no problem believing every word in a 2000+ year old book of fables written by what were essentially nomads - with absolutely no supporting evidence outside the book in question. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356110 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
