I was cheering every word of this post. Thank you!

by Jack , Friday, January 30, 2015, 09:39 (3396 days ago) @ HumanRobot
edited by Jack, Friday, January 30, 2015, 09:46

I have friends who are the opposite of creationists - science can never be wrong. Actually, when it's a theory, yeah it can be, because the word "theory" means it hasn't been proven. (Yes, I know evolution is a theory also)

It's like people who believe in the infallibility of Malthus. Well, he hasn't been right yet, so why does anyone think he was infallible? It the same with climatology, as if everything is a consistent, predictable trend. I'm not a scientist and even I know that's not the case, because it's dadblamed common sense.

It's not denying science, as one friend of mine says when I say, you know, your beloved New Jersey may not be under water in 100 years like you are certain of (or maybe it will be - I don't pretend to know), it's that nothing is "settled" when something is still a "theory" or when variables can change, sometimes radically.

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OT/SNFW: Love letters to Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) - Jeff (BGS), 2015-01-30, 06:54
- "Your feigned intelligence is nothing more that the fart of - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 14:12
- SNFW? Yoda, is that you? - irishvol, 2015-01-30, 08:56
  - Revealed my poor typing you have - Jeff (BGS), 2015-01-30, 09:32
    - Keep must you left. - BillyGoat, 2015-01-30, 09:37
- He's still just mad about that honey - Jim (fisherj08), 2015-01-30, 07:55
- Watching him pronounce biotch is quite amusing. - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2015-01-30, 07:50
  - I'm going to post and run - Supe, 2015-01-30, 09:00
    - No offense, but what insight does your 200/300 level - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 09:33
      - The randomess factor doesn't come close to explaining DNA - KelleyCook, 2015-01-30, 10:40
        
        To be fair... - piyachi, 2015-01-30, 11:25
        
        This is "the god of the gaps" - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 10:54
        
        Roger's Version - Jeff (BGS), 2015-01-30, 15:16
        
        The Philip Roth of Christians. - Buck Mulligan, 2015-01-31, 09:40
        
        "No" and other deep thoughts - KelleyCook, 2015-01-30, 12:28
        
        I thought this was all explained in 2001 - Jay, 2015-01-30, 10:53
    - I agree with you - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 09:05
      - Questioning it on grounds internal to science - IrishGuard, 2015-01-30, 09:34
  - Including Dave Pasch - Jack, 2015-01-30, 08:08
  - That's very human, I think. - Slainte Joe, 2015-01-30, 08:05
    - It was the high percentage that surprised me. - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2015-01-30, 08:11
      - I'd love to see the demographic breakdown. - Slainte Joe, 2015-01-30, 08:36
        
        Protestants are roughly half the US population - Jack, 2015-01-30, 08:55
        
        I looked here. - Slainte Joe, 2015-01-30, 09:02
        
        I think you could add the historically black churches to - Jack, 2015-01-30, 09:25
        
        Sure. I think that's correct. - Slainte Joe, 2015-01-30, 10:07
      - what's meant by "Don't believe in evolution"? - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 08:33
        
        Robot, this is exactly what I was thinking. - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 09:30
        
        Based on what Jay wrote, the question might be confusing - Jeff (BGS), 2015-01-30, 08:43
        
        Here's the Pew Study. - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2015-01-30, 08:51
        
        as a scientist, you have to understand - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 09:03
        
        Where any of you present - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 10:03
        
        I was cheering every word of this post. Thank you! - Jack, 2015-01-30, 09:39
        
        the 'Science says' folks drive me nuts - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 09:40
        
        Scientism is a pseudo-religion. - Slainte Joe, 2015-01-30, 10:08
        
        brilliant - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 10:10
        
        This is very "meta" - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 09:45
        
        interesting discusion on NPR - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 12:45
        
        What do you mean by modern? - jcocktoaston, 2015-01-30, 11:06
        
        Post-Einstein - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 11:13
        
        I readily admit to being out of my depth here - jcocktoaston, 2015-01-30, 11:33
        
        My(limited) understanding is that while stuff like - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 11:53
        
        Koo. Thanks. - jcocktoaston, 2015-01-30, 11:58
        
        I think that's still unknown - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 11:45
        
        Help me out a little more please - jcocktoaston, 2015-01-30, 11:51
        
        It'd mean that the science on Higgs boson is incomplete - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 12:08
        
        Thanks. And on that note - jcocktoaston, 2015-01-30, 12:17
        
        Since science is a methodology of falsification - IrishGuard, 2015-01-30, 09:58
        
        There are theories and there are theories - Jack, 2015-01-30, 09:52
        
        "Theory" has a specific meaning - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 09:54
        
        How about a theory of the effects of man-made climate change - Jack, 2015-01-30, 15:39
        
        Yup, and if any are scientists - Jack, 2015-01-30, 09:43
        
        I wanted to punch deGrasse Tyson through my TV - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 09:46
        
        Evolution is not a fact? - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 09:52
        
        Not sure where that comes from - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 10:05
        
        I think he was referring to evolution specifically - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 10:46
        
        perhaps I misrecall then - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 10:54
        
        I wanted to multiple times - Jack, 2015-01-30, 09:47
        
        I'm a little confused by your first sentence - HullieAndMikes, 2015-01-30, 09:09
        
        let's put it this way - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 09:24
        
        In comic form... - bpeters07, 2015-01-30, 10:57
        
        I mean, yeah, like all endeavors of mankind - HullieAndMikes, 2015-01-30, 10:08
        
        Who set up the science and the related rules? - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 09:38
        
        the Devil - Jay, 2015-01-30, 10:19
        
        That explains a shit ton. - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 10:46
        
        What does this mean? - Dylan, 2015-01-30, 09:37
        
        the former - HumanRobot, 2015-01-30, 09:38
        
        Believe humans were created in their current state... - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2015-01-30, 08:40
    - seems to be an American phenomenon - Jay, 2015-01-30, 08:10
      - We're not very familiar with the concept of "No" - Mike (bart), 2015-01-30, 08:21
      - Americans are the most religious people on the planet... - PMan, 2015-01-30, 08:21
        
        Saudis and Iranians might take issue with that - Jack, 2015-01-30, 08:32
        
        Catholic creationists... - bpeters07, 2015-01-30, 09:06
        
        Catholics can't just believe the BB, they can theorize it! - Savage, 2015-01-30, 09:55
        
        Not surprising to me - Jack, 2015-01-30, 09:30
        
        I hope that ND stays that way - bpeters07, 2015-01-30, 16:45
        
        Do you know this Song?: - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 14:26
        
        More importantly, most have no idea of the reason for the - Grantland, 2015-01-30, 13:42
      - That answers my question above - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2015-01-30, 08:20
        
        I think a lot of it could be demographic as well (EDIT) - Mike (bart), 2015-01-30, 08:25
        
        I'd like to know what the percentage is by region of the US - Jack, 2015-01-30, 08:57
      - Hey, at least we're ahead of Turkey. - Jack, 2015-01-30, 08:14

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I was cheering every word of this post. Thank you!