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Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes
An anonymous reader writes "The Reverend Professor Michael Reiss, a biologist and Anglican priest, is the education director for the Royal Society, the venerable British science institution. He recently called for creationism to be discussed in science classes, not just in religion or philosophy classes. Science journals reacted with a world of 'WTF' and the Royal Society backpedaled furiously. Now Nobel laureates are gathering to get him fired: 'The thing the Royal Society does not appreciate is the true nature of the forces arrayed against it and the Enlightenment for which the Royal Society should be the last champion.' The blogs, of course, are loving it."
While you're at it, throw in literary theories into science classes. Astrology should be popular also. Maybe we can get the Scientology people to sponsor that in the science class also.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
what happens when you disprove someone's religion?
What happens when you disprove atheism ? (non-dogmatism, the idea that because all rules are man made, which is true, means that they are negotiable, which is patently false. This is the real ideology of 99,99% of "atheists", and is extremely trivial to disprove (let's negotiate over the rule that killing "EccentricAnomaly" is wrong, after all nothing is inherently wrong, right ?), you could even do it "live" with Godel sentences in extreme cases, but you can do this intuitively).
I assume what will happen when a believer gets confronted with this depends on their ethics, right ? Since all religions push different ethics, let's enumerate.
1. an atheist : will declare you racist and intolerant, alternatively they might try the buddhist approach ... see a chrisian (unless of course he considers you not brahmin, in that case he will use violence directly, esp. if you're considered dalit)
2. a christian : will seek to convince you otherwise with patience "and good deeds" (whatever that means), ignoring any evidence that's inconvenient. They will also seek to build this evidence into the religion, and explain it "in Christian context" (e.g. the pope doesn't deny evolution, he merely states that it does not apply to humans. He does not believe humans are interlocked into an eternal extermination war for resources, and will not accept any evidence to the contrary as "inhumane". He is right in doing so imho (even though I don't agree with many other points)). If you truly don't respond to their attempts to convince you, Christians will shun you.
3. a muslim : will threaten you, then if that fails will physically attack you
4. a buddhist will declare you delusional for assuming that there is a real world in the first place, therefore claiming anything is proof is nonsensical
5. a hindu