(April 24, 2015 at 6:00 pm)gomlbrobro Wrote: Note that when I say, "...the scientific community is corrupt", I am not saying popularized science necessarily false, at all. What I was trying to say is that the main voices control the community.
I need you to actually think a little about the history of science, for a bit; how many of the greats in science got their reputations through overturning previously established ideas? Seriously, how many? Turns out, it's rather a lot. This idea that there's this controlling overclass maintaining the status quo only exists to make you feel better that the best of the best won't take your ideas seriously, but quite simply, reality betrays the weakness of that. Careers in science have been made by taking the status quo and crumpling it up into a little ball.
Quote:The voices happen to have the same opinion, as well.
The one that just happens to be supported by all the evidence, but you conveniently skipped that part.

Quote: My point is that there are other theories, which you might be aware of, that aren't publicized because they contradict the existing ones.
No, there aren't other theories. There are other hypotheses, hypotheses that aren't publicized because they have no evidence or support, and propagate themselves by doing what you did, poking holes in what we do have evidence for and making arguments from ignorance. Frankly, if your idea was to present these other ideas, you might have actually done that, instead of just poking holes in the established science; you didn't spend a single sentence detailing what these other ideas are, or discussing the evidence behind them. You just went negative, as if naysaying the work of other people is sufficient to establish some other idea that you wouldn't even name.
In fact, the one idea that you did go into any detail on is symptomatic of the whole problem; when you talked about irreducible complexity your presentation of it amounted to nothing more than "evolution doesn't know how these things evolved, therefore they couldn't have evolved!" That's all any of these tarted up creationist frauds can do, is stomp on the work of respected scientists so they can point at (what they perceive to be) the debris and say "look at all that rubble! Why would you want to believe in rubble over this shiny new idea I have... ignore the lack of evidence now..."
Quote: My target audience for the writing was for uneducated people; people who would not know that there are other theories. I'm assuming you guys have looked at various theories on both sides, and rightly so. I'm not offended at all; I am fully aware that you guys know more. It is my personal decision, regardless of my ignorant knowledge, to believe in a deity. I sure hope you guys don't disagree with that.
Personal decisions are fine, whatever, but when you besmirch the good names of people who have dedicated their lives to improving yours, when you smear science after it has given you so much, when you impugn things that you literally owe your life to, in the name of keeping those ideas safe from the obvious criticisms, then you are acting downright villainous.
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