Showing posts with label space travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space travel. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2010

We Know More Than You Think



Show this to the next person that you hear say, "skeptics don't know everything", or some shit like that. My message back to them is, "Yea, well, we know enough!"

Enough not to be a dumbshit, anyway,...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Life For An Atheist: Everyone Gets To Piss On Your Parade (And Give Themselves A Pass)

"The universe is wonderful enough on its own. Space, stars, planets, black holes, galaxies, suns. The fact that out of all the elemental soup, people like us have evolved to walk and talk and create art, music, white wine, patent leather stacked mary jane shoes, Cocoa Puffs cereal, truck nutz, chocolate chip cookies, surf boards, and the Neiman Marcus cosmetics department is AMAZING. All by itself. Saying, 'god did it' is heartbreaking. It pisses on the sheer wonderousness of it all, you know? I don’t need more.

The universe doesn’t need to be imbued with the mystical to make it 'more' special. It’s like salting a pot of soup in someone else’s kitchen without permission.  It’s awfully presumptuous, and, well, more than a little rude."


-- Allyson Beatrice, explaining etiquette (as it may or may not pertain to skeptics) on Cocktail Party Physics.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Well, Science Doesn't Know Everything (Part I)

I hear it all the time: "Well, science doesn't know everything,..". They say it like science is a bald-headed step-child compared to whatever goofy belief they're defending. So I think, from time-to-time, I'm going to remind these fools of what science does know - like space travel (above) or how to put a person to sleep, cut them open, fiddle around inside them, and wake them up again. What it allows us to see in the very small, as well as the very large; and whatever else people with NewAge beliefs think they can pooh-pooh because their outlook is so limited, and malthusian, they can't imagine anything better than what it allows.

By the way, you morons, if you're looking at this on a computer: science.