WOTM: Science & Apologists
First of all, Happy New Year! May your 2019 be impeachy keen!!!
As for the video... Few things differentiate science and religion more than religion's need of apologists. There's one very simple reason for that — science genuinely (and sometimes desperately) cares about the truth.
Three more coming in just minutes. Enjoy this one — it turned out to be one of my favorites in a long time. And of course, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! B
Comments (9)
Okay....need a link to "the claw" reference. I missed this one.
It’s there in the video. It’s the way Craig holds his hands when he’s pontification.
Without scientific facts the apologist would have nothing to argue against. And that they can ignore the obvious and continue to "believe" is quite frightening at times.
Love the side comments and pictures. Especially liked the Douglas Adams reference. One little nit-picky bit of constructive criticism: maybe let the written snark and the pictures stay on the screen for a half second longer? I sometimes have to "rewind and pause" because they go by so fast. Kind of breaks up the flow.
We might add that the quality of today's apologists has fallen to a new, low level. Is this the best they can come up with? Recycling old and proven false arguments to new audiences?
Maybe we need a corollary to Brandolini's law (“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it”) that the energy needed to generate *new* BS is some number of times greater than the energy required to recycle old bullshit. Here's a topic for a pointless discussion: how many times greater? ;-)
I think Carl Sagan was referring to apologists when he quipped: "It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."
I have recently run into "christians" who claim technology is not science. Technically true, however it is rather like that old song, "you can't have one without the other." Have you run across this argument and can you help with a snappy come back? I keep mentioning their smart phone but they don't seem to get it. TIA
I would reply "so what?" What is this argument in aid of? How does one word not having the same meaning as another prove the existence of any god, much less the Xian flavor of deity?