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Tomorrow's Science Heroes?
An anonymous reader writes "As a kid I was (and still am) heavily influenced by Carl Sagan, and a little later by Stephen Hawking. Now as I have started a family with two kids, currently age 5 and 2, I am wondering who out there is popularizing science. Currently, my wife and I can get the kids excited about the world around them, but I'd like to find someone inspiring from outside the family as they get older. Sure, we'll always have 'Cosmos,' but are there any contemporaries who are trying to bring science into the public view in such a fun and intriguing way? Someone the kids can look up to and be inspired by? Where is the next Science Hero?"
Religion and Science are 100% incompatible. Religion = "I Believe", Science = "I can show/demonstrate/repeat".
This is exactly the kind of a dumb-ass comment that prevents a dialog from happening. I suggest that you start by re-reading all Dawkins just to make sure that he never says anything even remotely resembling your... I can only describe it as a cognitive equivalent of a premature ejaculation.
They teach the heart of the Scientific Method and show it as being FUN. Test the hypothesis - then retest it, just like Jaime and Adam do every episode.
I realise this will be modded down but it has to be said - the Mythbusters are a horrible, horrible influence. They demonstrate the misuse and sloppy application of the scientific method, and how to jump to a generalised conclusion based on insufficient evidence. Many if not most of their shows should end with "insufficient data", not "busted", "proven" and "plausible".
They are good entertainment value if you like to see wild ideas tested or see things blown up, but I honestly believe that introducing kids to such sloppy science does more harm than good.
Now watch me get modded down by fans of all things blown up.
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38 comments and a substantial number of people have modded down the folks like the parent who speak the truth.
Let me say it more bluntly: RELIGION IS FUCKING STUPID. Religious people have telepathic conversations with invisible zombies in the sky. Do you religious morons ever feel silly kneeling over your bed, pretending to give a fuck about world peace and feeding the starving orphans when all you really want is to win the fucking lottery?
You are vain-glorious fucks, greedy for your god's own power. You pick and choose what parts of your holy mandates you like and conveniently discard the parts you don't. On the surface you preach equal rights, but your kind have done nothing to stifle social and scientific progress. Do the right-thinking folks a favor and give yourselves a premature rapture.
No, wait a minute. Religion isn't all that bad. Religious texts are useful random number generators because of all the arbitrary numbers that the so-called "prophets" pull out of their ass. The bible is bullshit. I love to roll joints and wipe my ass with Bible and Koran paper. The talmud is also a piece of shit, I swear it eats the dollar bills off my desk when I'm not looking. It usually burps late at night, and while it thinks I don't hear it, I do. Hindus are racist motherfuckers, but they have the most convenient excuse for being so: the dark-skinned outcastes fucked up in a past life.
We need a final solution for all religious people. They could be rounded up and used as guinea pigs for medical trials. Rather that than use actual guinea pigs, the lives of guinea pigs and other mammals are worth much more than religious human scum.
Why don't you disagree with what I wrote instead of your moronic interpretation of what I wrote?
You say that science "doesn't claim that it has" explained the origin of the universe. That is my exact point. Science and Religion are not "100% incompatible" as the source post of this sub-thread claims. The very bedrock of science is nothing but pure faith. Science does not preclude this statement:
Additionally, the scientific method is also pure faith. The faith is that things are repeatable. Anything that you just have to accept because you cannot apply the scientific method, is an exercise in faith. When you wrote:
You may as well have written:
The point of science and religion isn't to say "something is", it's to explain why. Until you can explain why, then it might as well be magic.