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If all technical knowledge was lost tomorrow...
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Scientific Method for is THE most important element for explaining a nature without god(s).
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"Jesus Christ! Grab the Escalade, we're outta here!" - God 
If all technical knowledge was lost tomorrow, and there was still "a next generation" to give this data to... then I should think that as much solid information as someone can get about whatever gods/aliens did this, and specifically the reason *why* they did this (if available) is the most important thing. If we, with our current technological state, cannot see this coming (SETI's existence pisses me off)... then clearly, as we found all this other stuff out beforehand, that is the most needed technical knowledge, even if it is only technological in the information of specifically what happens when a certain thing is done, and especially why.
Alternately, if we don't examine your question to the conclusion that we should make... then I would say that I would have the data that clean hands and medical equipment save lives. Going to the doctor should not immediately put you into contact with diseases and whatever else people have been carrying. I believe this to be tantamount to the scientific method's re-advancement. If half of the people who visit the doctor/hospital do not die, then that's a significant portion of the population out there capable of making discoveries. Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Fire, all the rest is useless if you can't remember how to start a fire.
![[Image: mybannerglitter06eee094.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo112%2Fpussinboots_photos%2FBikes%2Fmybannerglitter06eee094.gif) If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71. (March 5, 2011 at 7:05 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Fire, all the rest is useless if you can't remember how to start a fire. But if a caveman can do it... seriously man.... if a caveman can do it... .... ... You'd waste this chance on *FIRE*?! 0.o I think you're just a pyromaniac. 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
(March 5, 2011 at 7:13 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:(March 5, 2011 at 7:05 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Fire, all the rest is useless if you can't remember how to start a fire. If ALL technical knowledge was lost, that by definition includes the technology to make fire. If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.
I'm aware of that... and again: fire is something that would be quickly relearned. Atomic theory, the benefits of cleanliness, electricity, etc... are things that took a really long time to get to understanding. Fire? That'll go quickly
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
 (March 4, 2011 at 4:49 pm)theVOID Wrote: Bayes theorem is the logic of science, good science anyway, with it people could make fairly rapid progress towards the truth and better allocate their resources in the further pursuit of truth. It would also greatly help resolve philosophical, historical and economic debates leaving more room for real progress. What a difficult decission to make between my argument and yours. Both can do a good job, but which one is better for the sake of this discussion? Show them a list of the building blocks and their properties, or show them how to come to a logical, scientific conclusion? Each would lead to the other eventually. Perhaps in this situation both would be equally wise choices. 
Dotard
Card carrying member of NO MA'AM  Religious Views: Asuperstitionist. Silly theists, myths are for kids!
I would warn then with all urgency, warning them of a grave and dark future for humanity. I would tell them that to prevent this horrible horrible future they MUST change the course of history and squash the womens rebellion (suffrage) movement!
Oh wait.... this is about the future, not if you were able to go into the past...... Hmmmm... Ok.. this might still work. I'll leave them a history of their glorious technological past and then make up some shit about how women and homosexuals destroyed it all. With this "historical document" will be the map of the human genome and a document urging a most dedicated study to eradicate any genetic propensity to homosexuality and to breed women with that same propensity to submissiveness. Boy o' boy if I could pull that shit off and live to see it's fruition I would be hailed as a king and the savior of humanity. Yay!
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 (March 4, 2011 at 4:07 pm)theVOID Wrote: I said technical knowledge, not ludicrous fantasy I know right! He's crazy because obviously I'm God. Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. " |
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