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Democrats use science as a weapon
http://toddkinsey.com/blog/2011/08/17/democrats-use-science-as-a-weapon-2/ ^

Posted on 08/17/2011 6:57:10 AM PDT by Todd Kinsey

For the better part of a century, socialists (Democrats) have been using science as a weapon to destroy the very fabric of American society. Today they propagate the global warming myth, forty years ago they were sounding the global cooling alarm, and they’ve used junk science to teach evolution in our nation’s schools.

To the socialist it is somehow easier to believe that aliens put us here or that we emerged from some primordial sludge than it is to believe in God. Socialist leadership, under the guise of “organizing”, use the environment, gay rights, immigration, or any number of causes as a form of religion to keep their unwitting masses in line. Their absence of God, and therefore morality, leaves these desperate souls longing to believe in something. How else can you explain a human being that is willing to risk their life to save a tree or a whale, yet they have no qualms about aborting a baby or assisted suicide?

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: asa; belongsinreligion; democrats; gagdadbob; georgemurphy; globalwarming; morality; onecosmosblog; socialism; toddkinsey
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To: LeGrande; betty boop
You need to reread the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

The next time I read the Heisenberg uncertainty principle it will be the first. I have been upfront about being unschooled in the sciences. I function with limited intellectual capacity and intuitive reasoning. I reason from street level rather than Ivory Tower heights. That is the best I can do. Sometimes I hit, sometimes I miss.

521 posted on 09/06/2011 2:06:24 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: YHAOS
“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.”

. . . Professor Richard Dawkins, Debate/Interview excerpt between Professor Dawkins and Dr Collins, conducted at the Time & Life Building in New York City on Sept. 30, 2006.

And in his frequent public statements, Professor Dawkins has been conscientious in crediting the Theory of Evolution for his certainty.

To see, one must look.

From those words, it sounds like Professor Dawkins (whom I've never heard of, nor know anything about) is a devout atheist who uses the fact of the theory of evolution as "proof" of the non-existence of God. In reality, it is not.

In that, he is the exact opposite side of the coin from the literal creationists, in that both sides take the ToE as "proof" that God does not exist. But he is happy to have such "proof" while the literal creationists must grasp at anything to try to invalidate the theory because if they can't discredit it, then they must accept as truth the unpleasant idea that God does not exist.

In reality, the ToE is no more and no less than any other theory, in that it provides an excellent framework within which to design and conduct scientific research, but is useless for trying to ascertain whether or not God exists.

That professor does a huge disservice to science by trying to claim that the ToE is definitive proof that there is no God. Science simply can't be used to answer metaphysical questions.

522 posted on 09/06/2011 2:52:37 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
From those words, it sounds like Professor Dawkins (whom I've never heard of, nor know anything about) is a devout atheist

Wiki Professor Dawkins. He is worth a look. Instructive.

You account the Professor a “devout” Atheist. He places himself anywhere from devout Agnostic to fervent Atheist, depending on the headwinds he is bucking.

523 posted on 09/06/2011 3:11:54 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop
"Truly posters only use spitwads when they have no ammunition."

Yeah. Scarcely an eve on the computer goes by that I don't spend ten minutes or so on the old rug sweeper picking up all the spitwads.

524 posted on 09/06/2011 3:30:53 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: YHAOS
You account the Professor a “devout” Atheist. He places himself anywhere from devout Agnostic to fervent Atheist, depending on the headwinds he is bucking.

I looked over the wiki (I don't want to read the whole thing). My previous assessment was correct: his atheism absolutely takes the form of a religious faith. He certainly does the cause of increasing scientific literacy no favors, when he states as fact his pure opinion that science can somehow disprove the existence of God.

525 posted on 09/06/2011 3:45:04 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
I looked over the wiki (I don't want to read the whole thing).

I don’t blame you.

his atheism absolutely takes the form of a religious faith.

I would say so, yes.

He certainly does the cause of increasing scientific literacy no favors, when he states as fact his pure opinion that science can somehow disprove the existence of God.

Yet, Dawkins’ opinion, as you correctly characterize it, is loudly trumpeted as indisputable fact. That Dawkins does no favors for the cause of scientific literacy has been my contention from the start, but you should hear some of the heinous misdeeds of which I am accused, when I raise the issue of the misrepresentations of Dawkins & co (LOL).

“Well the word delusion means a falsehood which is widely believed, and I think that is true of religion. It is remarkably widely believed, it’s as though almost all of the population or a substantial proportion of the population believed that they had been abducted by aliens in flying saucers. You’d call that a delusion. I think God is a similar delusion.”
. . . from the same Debate/Interview

The very title of Dawkins’ latest book (The God Delusion) is as clear a demonstration as one would want that Dawkins deems religious people (most particularly Christians) to be delusional, or worse (misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, and capriciously malevolent), and he charges the same in his book. The book’s title likewise makes it manifest that the existence of a god is what he considers Christians to be delusional about.

Just a small preview of what has been going on, apparently unbeknownst to you.

Most of the supposed battle between Science and Christians would not even be necessary if Christians did not find themselves trapped in a culture increasingly composed of an obscene filth that threatens them and their children at every turn.

It’s a chimera to believe it possible to achieve a values-free education where no one’s culture preferences predominate. If we chose to surrender education to government, then we will get the education that government believes is in its own best interest, and it would seem that this is what we have done. Right now government appears to believe its interest to be an education controlled by unions like the SEIU, ACORN, GLBT, the ACLU, environmental crazies, Liberation Theologists, Marxist/Socialist thugs, NAMBLA, and illegal immigrants (my apologies to any radical leftwing nutjob I’ve omitted). Are these the influences you prefer?

I think likely not.

526 posted on 09/06/2011 7:43:41 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: YHAOS

LOLOL!


527 posted on 09/07/2011 12:02:46 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Texas Songwriter; betty boop
Thank you both so very much for your outstanding insights into "warranted belief!"

A similar point is being raised over here. Perhaps Plantinga's thoughts and your insights should be mentioned there as well?

528 posted on 09/07/2011 12:15:40 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Mind-numbed Robot; Alamo-Girl; djf; mbs6; Texas Songwriter; xzins; metmom; Matchett-PI; TXnMA; ...
The next time I read the Heisenberg uncertainty principle it will be the first. I have been upfront about being unschooled in the sciences.

Don't worry about that overmuch, dear MNR: In all likelihood LeGrande is also "unschooled" in the matter.

Evidently he invokes the Heisenberg uncertainty principle as some great magical mantra, the sheer invocation of which disposes of the very possibility of any following debate. Which has the added side benefit of precluding any question about his understanding of that self-same principle.

Heisenberg isolated multiple "uncertainty relations" that pertain to observations of the quantum world. What has come to be known as the uncertainty principle is a sort of logical summing up of these various uncertainties.

But Heisenberg did not like that term "uncertainty." He preferred the term "inexactness." His colleague Niels Bohr further weighed in with the suggestions of "unsureness," or even better, "indeterminacy."

Thus the "uncertainty principle" is more accurately described (logically) as the "indeterminacy principle." And the reason for that is "uncertainty" implies something that we could know, but don't; while "indeterminacy" implies something that we can't know, in principle.

Thus concepts based on direct experience do not apply in the quantum world. We are led to appreciate Bohr's realization that natural science is not nature itself. Rather it expresses the relation between man and nature and thus in some critical sense is dependent on man....

I imagine in LeGrande's world, if two descriptions of a natural phenomenon are mutually exclusive, then at least one of them must be wrong.

Which is to fail to grasp the principle of complementarity. Complementarity describes the situation where both of two seemingly mutually exclusive quantum behaviors — particle or wave — are necessary to completely understand the properties of the object under observation.

The problem that cannot be overcome is that one cannot see BOTH at once; so you have to choose which to see. And the really weird thing is, whether an object behaves as a particle or a wave basically depends on the apparatus you choose to view it with. AND the apparatus, the object, and the observer of same are all part of one overall quantum system; and thus as parts mutually affect one another....

That sort of insight must bear hard on "know-it-alls"....

Glad to see you're still not taking any wooden nickels, dear MNR!

Thank you so very much for writing!

529 posted on 09/07/2011 3:46:23 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop

heheheheheheh ... I see you’ve figured out the little man who calls himself ‘Grande’.


530 posted on 09/07/2011 4:14:04 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: betty boop
Evidently he invokes the Heisenberg uncertainty principle as some great magical mantra, the sheer invocation of which disposes of the very possibility of any following debate. Which has the added side benefit of precluding any question about his understanding of that self-same principle.

LOLOL!

Thank you so very much for that beautiful summary of the issue, dearest sister in Christ!

531 posted on 09/07/2011 9:55:51 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: TXnMA

Thanks for sharing.


532 posted on 09/08/2011 7:42:27 AM PDT by Todd Kinsey (Todd)
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To: TXnMA

My wife has been a NASA contractor for most of her career, so I’ve been fortunate enough to see a lot of amazing things.


533 posted on 09/08/2011 7:46:06 AM PDT by Todd Kinsey (Todd)
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