RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
July 11, 2015 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2015 at 4:30 pm by Tonus.)
(July 10, 2015 at 11:19 am)Little Rik Wrote: That is funny Ton.There is some truth to that. People tend to get trapped in cycles because they don't want to accept new knowledge or understanding, even when there are examples of what can go wrong. Financially and socially we seem to make the same mistakes out of arrogance and an unwillingness to learn from mistakes. Religion is another example, forcing us along paths that we know are going to end badly because it has ended badly every other time. Yet you sit there and talk of spirits and cars and you make up statistics in order to maintain a view of the world that is wrong.
Just before the 1929 when we had the Wall street crash most people thought that the reality was their own idea of materialist reality.
Today previous mistakes tell nothing to this new generation of people.
The same mistakes are made and therefore the same fate await us.
As for me, I'll be fine. The neighborhood I am moving to doesn't have a tall building in sight for acres all around. I'm at greater risk of malaria than of height-assisted suicide. I'll see if I can't convince the "2%" to make things a bit better for that other "98%" that can't seem to keep their heads above water. Maybe if we can rid them of their silly superstitions, they can start to make some progress of their own.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould