News Briefs 05-05-2009
Posted by Jameske at 12:27, 05 May 2009Mad but true.
- The links between mental illness and creativity.
- Newton's electric clockwork solar system.
- Green ethnic cleansing.
- The case for mad pride.
- Unlocking the secrets of herbal remedies.
- Cometary filaments.
- Magnetic twisters dance across Mercury.
- Death and dying: what science tells us about the afterlife.
- The history of spinal cord stimulation.
- Ancient tsunami hit New York.
- Virgin Galactic's test flight.
- Is Dawkins really that naive?
Thanks Greg
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19 August 2004
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Dawkins and his ilk are imbeciles. Not because they aren’t correct in many or their suppositions, but because they act worse than the people they claim are idiots for believing what they do. They act like the worst zealots on the planet and they say it’s necessary to beat the religious zealots. Huh? How is acting like an idiot going to beat an idiot? It ends up being two groups of idiots raving away, with rational people watching a rave-fest and not getting any message from it at all.
Acting like an idiot zealot isn’t going to attract anyone “to your side” that isn’t already on your side to begin with. If it’s that Dawkins has urges that need to be met because he’s so damn mad about the whole thing that he feels the need to yell and scream about it, then yea he’s just a good ole zealot. If he really wanted to convince people of his points, there are many better approaches to this than what he is doing. But I just don’t get the impression that is what he cares about.