RE: Physicist creationist
April 30, 2015 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2015 at 4:07 pm by Pyrrho.)
(April 30, 2015 at 3:46 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I have a hard time believing this. Call me a cynic.
You should get out more. It is really, really easy to believe. I have met all kinds of people, who believe all sorts of batshit crazy things.
What often happens is, people compartmentalize their knowledge and beliefs, such that they pretend that one area of knowledge (one subject, if you will), has no significance for any other area of knowledge. So they end up with all sorts of contradictory beliefs, without realizing it.
There is a fashion these days to pretend that religion and science are about different things, and can coexist without contradiction. Of course, that is absurd, but it is something that many people believe. You can read about it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria
Of course, some people advocate such an approach for pragmatic reasons, without actually believing the nonsense themselves. But, of course, they must pretend and say they believe it, otherwise others will not take it seriously.
(April 30, 2015 at 3:58 pm)Neimenovic Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote: FUBAR.
I think you mean furchtbar and indeed, this is schreklich *wink at the German audience*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_slang#FUBAR
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
