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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 10/18/2007 :  18:40:28  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Teach the controversy! From PZ's Pharyngula:
Physicists, do you feel left out? Some nobody biologist from the Middle-of-Nowhere, Minnesota gets featured in a crackpot movie, but all you get is incoherent dumpster-diving schizophrenics making tirades about your work, and never anybody who has heard of venture capital? Rejoice! Your loons are getting more professional, too!

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.

Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/19/2007 03:50:31

Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
4907 Posts

Posted - 10/19/2007 :  09:26:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Looks like the same old bullshit:

The filmmaker has the point of view that if the general public can't understand a theory, engineers don't use it, and there is a growing number of physicists and scientists finding fundemental problems with relativity...


There is really not point in showing all the things that are wrong with that paragraph. That is, other than the typo.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular

Norway
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Posted - 10/19/2007 :  09:28:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send On fire for Christ a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Sometimes I just want to kill people. If I had a button infront of me that could kill this woman if I pushed it, I would be hammering that thing right now. Does that make me a bad person?

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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
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Posted - 10/19/2007 :  22:14:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by On fire for Christ

Does that make me a bad person?
Yes.

But I'd also say that you're a better person than those who would suggest that 80-something years of scientific validation and successful use of a theory don't matter if grandma can't get a grip on it, because you're more honest about your intent than they'll ever be.

- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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