a bridge too short.
http://www.wimp.com/mastbridge/
Life on the blade of a helicopter
interesting.
http://www.wimp.com/worldview/
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Re: Thanks, Science!
In the absence of God, I found Man.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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In the absence of God, I found Man.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
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http://www.wimp.com/hearingherself/
Join this woman in listening to her voice the first time.
Thanks science.
Join this woman in listening to her voice the first time.
Thanks science.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
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http://www.wimp.com/popsiclesticks/
A bit of physics can go a long way.
The writers of the bible would have called this a miracle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_bomb
A bit of physics can go a long way.
The writers of the bible would have called this a miracle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_bomb
In the absence of God, I found Man.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
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Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
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Something never seen before modern humanity, by any living creatrue.
Take a little stroll across the surface of mars in a time-lapsed 3 year hike from crater to crater.
http://io9.com/5848490/watch-mars-rover ... ee-minutes
The power of inquiry, folks.
Take a little stroll across the surface of mars in a time-lapsed 3 year hike from crater to crater.
http://io9.com/5848490/watch-mars-rover ... ee-minutes
The power of inquiry, folks.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
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Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Whoever holds the results of science dogmatically doesn't understand science.But science as dogma is just as bad as religious dogma.
edit- I followed the link but saw no dogma.
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I’m not sure exactly what Ant is referring to, but there is the tendency for some to “dogmatically” believe in science or some face thereof. Scientists are often as dogmatic about their own theories or established “laws” as are religious fanatics, sometimes fighting for years in defense of things that eventually turn out to be false. It is this dogmatic attitude displayed by some (certainly not all) researchers that gives fuel to the religionists, who often point to these uncertainties and contradictions in science as proof that their own theories should be given equal time. Of course, this is a specious argument, since even the most zealous of scientists will eventually be proven wrong if such is the case, whereas the religionists, who have been proven wrong time and time again, never alter their theories in accordance with actual empirical evidence. Still, I do believe it is accurate to say that some scientists can be dogmatic in their protection of established or personal theories, sometimes to the detriment of scientific advancement.
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Scientists are just people. That's why we need peer review.
There will always be the temptation to falsify data, or withold results which don't tell the story you are pushing.
Tobacco companies, pharmacudicals, pestacides, food packaging companies, all of them are pushing for profitability, not the truth.
http://www.wimp.com/badscience/
the process of science has no such bias. That's how we can tell for certain whether somebody HAS invented a more effective treatment for psychosis, or whether or not they really have invented a perpetual motion machine.
The very premise of peer review is that claims from scientists are never to be "believed". They are to be understood. And verified. And improved. That's why when new discoveries come out which challenge the old ways of doing things they are raked over the coals and inspected for any tiny crack in the methods which brought those results.
Because we aren't interested in accepting ideas for the sake of newness, or based on the authority of somebody's doctorate or education. Is what they said true? Can it be verified and confirmed?
That is the whole point. And where dogma is introduced, the path to truth has been abandoned.
There will always be the temptation to falsify data, or withold results which don't tell the story you are pushing.
Tobacco companies, pharmacudicals, pestacides, food packaging companies, all of them are pushing for profitability, not the truth.
http://www.wimp.com/badscience/
the process of science has no such bias. That's how we can tell for certain whether somebody HAS invented a more effective treatment for psychosis, or whether or not they really have invented a perpetual motion machine.
The very premise of peer review is that claims from scientists are never to be "believed". They are to be understood. And verified. And improved. That's why when new discoveries come out which challenge the old ways of doing things they are raked over the coals and inspected for any tiny crack in the methods which brought those results.
Because we aren't interested in accepting ideas for the sake of newness, or based on the authority of somebody's doctorate or education. Is what they said true? Can it be verified and confirmed?
That is the whole point. And where dogma is introduced, the path to truth has been abandoned.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?