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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?"
Einstein believed in God. If one the greatest scientific minds ever to exist can believe in something that can't be proven, then I've got no problem believing science and religion can coexist. Aside from that, many scholars, scientists and philosophers were religious if not actually members of the church.
I dislike that Neil deGrasse guy, he was quite the smirking "I'm smart and you're not" during that whole Pluto isn't a planet anymore crap. I'm with Michio Kaku as my favorite science enthusiast and speaker. He's smart, he's enthused and he didn't go around on the Tonight Show smirking about how Pluto isn't a planet. I'm also looking to punch whoever it was that decided Brontosaurus wasn't a proper name for the Brontosaurus too. (shakes fist in fury)
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
Because at the root, science is based on faith. Science has not provided a robust explanation for the origin of the universe. It cannot explain the four forces. It cannot explain time. All of those are taken as given without explanation or identifiable cause. For all that some people act smug about being enlightened and scientific, the fact of the matter is, their beliefs are as faith based as the beliefs of the unsophisticated religious types they are mocking.
How can you write that? The underlying assumptions of the big bang are no less faith based than the sky fairy on a six-day creation tour.
statistics is not your strong suit is it ?
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