Random Thoughts (Thomas Sowell)

GOP USA ^ | 11-30-05 | Thomas Sowell - Commentary

[Forte Runningrock]

Try being an engineer and always having to design things for idiots.

[skeptoid]

"Why did the courts bother with OJ Simpson when there were so many cut-and-dried cases they might have handled?"

I think it was because someone inconveniently reported two dead bodies and a bloody crime scene.

Murder vs Evolution arguments = Huh?

[mlc9852]

The evidence the cops had wasn't millions of years old.

[mlc9852]

Science is about repeating experiments that get the same outcome. How can you repeat an experiment involving evolution?

[mlc9852]

Maybe it's idiots who are designing things.

[13Sisters76]

I consider Sowell to be the most brilliant mind on the planet- I loved this: "It is usually futile to try and talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
oh, so true...

[normy]

Maybe it's idiots who are designing things

Engineers aren't idiots, they just can't do anything the easy way. Oh, and they are to busy impressing everyone with how smart they are.

[Hardastarboard]

It apparently does not occur to some engineers who design products that most of the people who will be using those products are not engineers.

Good point, and I would add another thought as well. Even the "C" engineers get jobs. I see it (and deal with it) in the design of a LOT of products.

[Louis Foxwell]

Science is about repeating experiments that get the same outcome. How can you repeat an experiment involving evolution?

"It is usually futile to try and talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."

A 2 edged sword if ever I saw one.

[jos65]

Thank you!!!!

My sentiments exactly.

[mlc9852]

What does moral superiority have to do with TOE?

[BagelFace]

Popularity can change very quickly in politics. During the boom times at the end of the 1920s, when Herbert Hoover was President, there were several times as many baby boys named Herbert as there were named Franklin. But just a few years later, after the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, there were several times as many boys named Franklin as were named Herbert.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've every heard. Now I've got to change my son's diaper.... where are you, George?

[dearolddad]

Try being an engineer and always having to design things for idiots.

Engineers should have to spend a year servicing the products they design.

[syriacus]

I like Thomas Sowell."Random Thoughts" is a recurring column, he usually does a new one every month or so.

I'm glad he does this on a regular basis. The style reminds me of an informal, but worthwhile, conversation at home.

[rockprof]

Science is about repeating experiments that get the same outcome.

No, it isn't.

[syriacus]

Now I've got to change my son's diaper.... where are you, George?

LOL!

[Comus]

Have you ever heard of drug resistant strains of bacteria?

The acquisition of that trait is evolution bro.

[joe fonebone]

I agree with you.........when i read this line, it was like a light went on im my head....after sending 3 kids through the public schools, i have to say a truer statement cannot be made.... and if a demonstration is needed, go to any store with a young checkout clerk, purchase something for 5 dollars and some change, then hand the clerk a 20 dollar bill and a 1 dollar bill. stand back and enjoy!

[mlc9852]

But the bacteria is and was and will be bacteria, right?

[RoadTest]

I just found my week's tag line in this article!