More Religious Insanity From The Us Of A

[Maximius]

The same way that concentration camp soldiers were killing thousands of innocent people, while maintaining their selfimage being a good guy. By splitting.

 

 

Dawkins was asked that question during an interview I saw about the God Delusion -- basically he said it was a form of "compartmentalisation", although he (Dawkins) wasn't personally able to understand it.

 

 

Ah yes, of course. I've heard it called "bifurcated thinking" holding two or more contradictory thoughts in ones head as being true. It tells me too that at least in some schools, a rigorous understanding of the philosophical aspects of scientific inquiry are lacking.

 

When I worked at the APS museum here in Philly a few years back, I met two Christian fundie scientists, a microbiologist and a mammologist. What a pair of whack jobs. We had some Darwin pieces up, they took the tour as an opportunity to preach about how wrong Darwin had been. I was speechless, not at their silly points which even I as a non scientist could refute, but at the fact these chimeras existed at all.

[OrbWeaver]

I met two Christian fundie scientists, a microbiologist and a mammologist.

 

A Christian fundie who studied breasts? Are you sure?

[SneaksieDave]

I've done that. My conclusion: they rule.

[Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat]

To my thinking, this individual is little more than a technician, not a scientist or even a student of science. If you have any understanding of the scientific method, you can instantly see how it dissolves belief systems based on faith, let alone disintegrating the silly particular beliefs involved. How do these people get so far without these contradictions exploding in their faces?

 

A better question than how they do it, in my opinion, is how do we change the system so that such people rise to the top in much smaller numbers?

 

I was approached by some representative of the new Church of Jesus or something like that. A Mormon. I've always wanted to see Amish people, wish he were Amish instead. He said there's a Prophet living right now. In Sault Lake City. I said I thought so. He wondered if I knew about the new book they published, the book of the Mormon or something. I said I had it on my bookshelf, which was true. He said it's easier to read than the bible because the truths haven't been lost through so many successive translations. Overall, I think it's not so bad America is in a state in which it is. Sometimes it's fun to roleplay with religion. To humour people.