Science in and of itself is an effort of a dying species to understand things that are well above their pay grade. Though we may "actually" have figured out a few simple elements of life by and large we understand much of nothing. Even honest physics admit they only understand around 3-4 percent of the universe and even that is their own opinion.
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"Dying" Only insofar as to be unable to resist the next extinction event on the scale. Otherwise we thrive to the exclusion of other, symbiotic species. You talk of dying but just a few days ago, I had to lend my space to a cat that got rescued from a psycho like you, who`d put him to sleep only because he redesigned his home, fuck the beast would even pay for ending his existence. I try to empathize with all conciousness, you with none of it. I did my duty gladly and with pride, he`s going to find a home now, instead of oblivion at the end of a needle.
Good for you, Skidie. I fucking loathe people who treat their pets like just another piece of their home furnishings. I hope wee kitty is happy in his new home.
Aaaaanyway, back OT: "We [...] teach in Universities the multitude of varying opinions of men, give them a piece of paper and call them professionals."
@heleninedinburgh
When the old gentleman gets it, we`re still just a termless foster home, at least now he doesn`t have the execution day hanging above his head and we do have a pc video camera and a twig basket, so he`s going to get very cute in his ads ;) I`m sure as sure can be he`s gonna get himself a home deserving of an older gentlecat like himself.
The last time your god ever did anything was (allegedly) 2,000+ years ago when he sent some guy to Earth to a backwater Roman province to do some parlor tricks, some speeches, and then get killed like lots of people tended to in the Roman Empire.
Nothing since. Aside from, of course, his legion of followers who have tormented humanity ever since.
Science in and of itself is an effort of a dying species to understand things that are well above their pay grade.
Yes, let's just stop trying to figure out how the universe works and put it all down to magic.
"We are good at inventing machines that tell us what we hope to see and teach in Universities the multitude of varying opinions of men, give them a piece of paper and call them professionals."
This is like a Palin sentence. The way it's constructed, "machines" is the subject of all the subordinate clauses. Let's spell that out:
"machines ... teach in Universities"
"machines ... give [men] a piece of paper"
I think the sentence he meant would be something like this:
"We are good at inventing machines that show us what we want to see, and we are good at teaching men human opinions in Universities, and then we call them professionals"
In order to complete the thought, he would have needed a second sentence--"But we ignore the teaching of god"--but he doesn't come even close to that.
Something I pondered this morning:
@Pharaoh Bastethotep: Believe me, you are far from the first person to have reached that conclusion.
Unfortunately, the fact that most of the major religions seem to agree that you should hate and fear the world around you and trust only in the book that your preacher waves around, would seem to indicate that organized religion as a concept would be the invention of the devil.
Mostly inarticulate, but might be translated as "I don't understand science so I will sneer at it. God club is easier and they're not so picky about entrance requirements, so I'll sneer at all those who don't join god club. Aaaahhh, that feels good!"
Spoken like someone who understands little to nothing of the things he's decrying.
"Science in and of itself is an effort of a dying species to understand things that are well above their pay grade."
And your alternative is to sit on your ass and do nothing while screaming "GodDunIt!" Science isn't perfect, but it works, unlike what you propose. It adds to our understanding, and enriches our lives in an almost incomprehensible number of ways. The computer and the internet that you're using to post this shit are two wonderful examples. You're just bitter that science is slowly filling in the gaps still available for your personal delusion of God to hide in. Grow up.
Too bad this guy misses the part where religion is also nothing more than a dying group of people trying to understand things beyond themselves. Ideas about God have to pass through your fallible little donor mind just like ideas about atoms do. Since everything in the world influences everything else, you can't understand anything at all without being omniscient.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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