RE: Respect towards religious people
March 12, 2012 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 5:48 am by orogenicman.)
I have no problem with affording people respect who have earned it. That said, I have no problem with being courteous to people I first meet. First impressions are important, and is a door that swings both ways. I am in no way obligated to respect ideas/arguments I don't believe in regardless of who promotes them. That does not prevent me from considering said arguments before discarding them. But I refuse to consider the same arguments over and over or accept that I should respect them no matter how many times I reject them. There has to be a point where we recognize it's time to move on.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
