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Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics
Zothecula writes "We like to think of technology as always being forward looking. It's supposed to be about nanoparticles and the Cloud, not steam engines and the telephone exchange. But every now and again the past reaches out, taps the 21st century on the shoulder and says, 'Have a look at this.' That's what happened to Professor Stephen Hoskins, Director of the University of West England, Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research. He is currently working on a way of printing 3D ceramics that are self-glazing, thanks to a 7,000-year old technology from ancient Egypt."
So what you're saying is that we need to meet the religious nuts HALF way? Deny HALF the science??? To gain some sort of inner compromise?
Or are you saying that science should be limited to criticizing only science?
He made a point which is salient. Some of these nutter states are teaching things FLATLY CONTRADICTED by science. No amount of inner soul searching for science will make that anything other than a bad thing. The correct solution is to point out again and again that that religious truth they're teaching is no different from the religious lies the Taliban teach, it is not real and can is provably incorrect at every level.
Pretending something wrong is half right for an easy life isn't what science is about. Sometimes you just gotta tell it like it is. God didn't make us in his image.