Carl Sagan reads from Pale Blue Dot - Galileo

This further illustrates my point here

A Quick Thought on Evolution v. Creationism

In many parts of The United States of America schools have ceased teaching The Big Bang Theory and The Theory of Evolution in favour of Creationism and Intelligent Design because the The Big Bang Theory and The Theory of Evolution dispute The Bible.

The Bible says:

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day(the sun), and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night: he made the stars also. [Genesis 1:16]

SOURCE: Bible Gateway (King James Version)

So are those same school districts going to stop teaching the fact that there are not two sources of light in the sky, but one? The lesser light is merely a reflection of the greater light. This is not a theory but an observable fact.

And while we're on the subject of Theory, there is a vast difference in the everyday definition of "Theory" and the scientific definition of "Theory" as this video so eloquently explains:

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Too dumb for words

I'm stunned! First Sherri says she doesn't believe in evolution, then she says she doesn't know if the world is round or flat now she's saying NOTHING pre-dates Christianity! Oy vey! I don't know where to begin.

There's is just no defending this kind incompetence. I mean I can't even say she's a mindless Christian drone, because she's not even that. She's Dumb! Even a mindless Christian drone who has read the Bible would know that the ENTIRE OLD TESTAMENT pre-dates Christianity. In the words of Bugs Bunny, "Whatta maroon! Whatta ignoranimus!"

This about sums it all up

Came across this this morning

Humans & Dinosaurs Co-existed?

You have been warned

Dremel Electric Rotary Tool
This product not intended for use as a dental drill.

Sleeping Pills
Warning: May cause Drowsiness

Matches
Caution: Contents may catch fire.

Auto-Shade Widnshield Visor
Warning: Do not drive with sunshade in place. Remove from windshield before starting ignition.

RCA Television Remote Control
Not Dishwasher Safe

Road Sign
Cemetery Road. Dead End

Children's Superman Costume
Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.

Hershey's Almond Bar
Warning: May contain traces of nuts

Sainsbury's peanuts:
Warning: contains nuts.

Helmet mounted mirror used by us cyclists:
Remember, objects in the mirror are actually behind you

Infant's bathtub:
Do not throw baby out with bath water.

13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow
Not intended for highway use.

A toilet bowl cleaning brush.
Do not use orally.

Microwave Oven:
Do not use for drying pets.

Rat Poison
Warning: has been found to cause cancer in laboratory mice.

Portable stroller
Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage.

Electric Thermometer.
Do not use orally after using rectally.

Do we really need this level of warnings? I mean there comes a point when we really do need to start trimming the herd. If you think you using a dremel in your mouth is a good idea, maybe you deserve a hole in your head. If you're cognitive enough to operate a hair dryer, but not cognitive enough to understand that water and electricity don't mix, may be you deserve to go to work with that "frazzled" look.

I realise that we live in a litigious world, especially when a woman spills hot coffee on herself, sues... and WINS! It's no wonder now, when you buy a hot cup of coffee there's a warning that says "Caution: Hot Coffee". I want to appeal to the lawmakers to stop this now! First of all, by constantly pandering to the lowest common denominator we are really dumbing down the world in which we live. Second, we look like a bunch of retards to the rest of the world.

Eric K. came up with a universal warning label which I think should be affixed to everything on the planet.

Warning: You may be stupid, take appropriate precautions.

Christopher Hitchens on Free Speech

Christopher Hitchens was the guest speaker after this debate at Hart House at the University of Toronto. He sums up a lot of what's in my head very concisely and precisely. I can't reiterate enough when he says something to the effect of not taking refuge with the consensus of the masses. We really need to curb our knee-jerk reactions.

The Magic Man

Tee Hee Hee

Creation a la Family Guy

In keep with the theme - Peter Griffin tells us how it all began. From the episode "Untitled Griffin Family History" from Season four. Original Air Date: May 14 2006

Carl Sagan´s Cosmos

This was just too funny not to post. It's from Last week's episode entitled "Airport '07" Original Air Date: March 4, 2007

Evolution V Creationism

Fossil exhibit fuels dispute in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya — Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of the Kenya National Museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.

But his first public display later this year is at the heart of a growing storm — one pitting scientists against Kenya's powerful and popular evangelical Christian movement. The debate over evolution vs. creationism — once largely confined to the United States — has arrived in a country known as the cradle of mankind.

"I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything like it," says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, head of Kenya's 35 evangelical denominations, which he claims have 10 million followers. "These sorts of silly views are killing our faith."

He's calling on his flock to boycott the exhibition and has demanded the museum relegate the fossil collection to a back room — along with some kind of notice saying evolution is not a fact but merely one of a number of theories.

Against him is one of the planet's best-known fossil hunters, Richard Leakey, whose team unearthed the bones at Nariokotome in West Turkana, in the desolate, far northern reaches of Kenya in 1984.

"Whether the bishop likes it or not, Turkana Boy is a distant relation of his," said Leakey, who founded the museum's prehistory department. "The bishop is descended from the apes and these fossils tell how he evolved."

Source: Pioneer Express (Complete Article)

This is something that's bugged me for a while. As I understand it, throughout humankind, faith and religion have been at odds with science.

I'm not here to debate the validity of one over the other. What I have trouble understanding is "why can't we all just get along?" For the most part science had allowed religion to believe whatever it wishes (with the notable exception of Richard Dawkins - A blog entry for another time). But why is religion so threatened by science?

If their faith dictates that their deity is all knowing and all powerful and all that jazz, then shouldn't they just let the pagans believe whatever they wish? Afterall they'll have the last laugh from heaven and while the scientists burn in hell. By stifling science I feel that religion is doing humanity a disservice by quashing the potential sum of human knowledge.

Is Science ever wrong? Frequently. However the nature of science is self correcting.
Is religion ever wrong? Frequently. However the nature of religion is denial.
(Hmm, I thought I said I wasn't here to debate the validity of one of the other? Oh well...)

However, the thing that really gets me, especially in this case, is, in a country where education for the masses is difficult enough to come by as it is, the evengelicals are attempting stem what little public education there is.

Also, I will concede that evolution is merely one of many theories as Bishop Boniface Adoyo contends, if he will do the same for creationism. And no, you can't use the Bible as proof of the Bible.

The best way I know how to say it is - I don't teach in your churches, so don't preach in my museums.