RE: Commie says hi!
April 23, 2015 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 10:40 am by Alex K.)
(April 23, 2015 at 9:43 am)Red Economist Wrote: The Soviet Union had some real problems trying to work out a consistently atheist/materialist view of nature and it meant that science became highly politicized. From a historical point of view, it's fascinating, but- if I actually had a better knowledge of the scientific concepts- is also intriguing because it conflicts with current ideas regarding the big bang, genetics, quantum mechanics and in some ways evolution.Indeed. As soon as a political movement thinks it can have a say about the findings of science, all red flags go up. I honestly think that this is the first step on the way to catastrophe, an Orwellian denial of reality. Lysenko is of course a drastic example, but there are more subtle ones, where the soviets tried to tell physicists that relativity or quantum mechanics or what have you are not compatible with whatever ideology they currently embraced, because of some hare brained ideas about how political principles should be reflected in the laws of the universe.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
