This is an exercise in logic. Please answer as best you can without performing any Googling.
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quote:Originally posted by LMM:
You're implying that if you are religious, you have no science background and vice versa.
quote:Originally posted by Skeptik:
I stole this from a university of Florida physics professor's website here: Link
The overall response to this question were quite similar to the responses of the people that were the mentioned in this very informal, unscientific study.
Of 11 responses here (so far) 8 of you got it right. I bet I could guess the identity of 2 out of 3 of the respondants.
Gravity "happens" wherever you have mass. The more massive an object is, the stronger the gravitational pull of the object. The moon's is about 1/80th the mass of earth making its gravity one-sixth that of the Earth's. So that a man who weighs 180lb on Earth weighs only 30 lb on the Moon.
Why is this question posted in a religion section? I believe the question illustrates a chasm between science and religion that may never be bridged. When otherwise very smart people so utterly misunderstand reality that they believe heavy boots kept men from floating off the face of the moon, we have a serious problem.
All three people who answered incorrectly once knew this stuff. It is taught to all of us at very earliest ages and repeatedly all the way through graduation. Yet, still, some of us forget all that and substitute our knowledge of reality with something demonstrably wrong.
The people who got this wrong are the same people who deny the reality of evolution or big bang or who insist that a mass of cells much smaller than this period (.) is a live human being worthy of all rights and privileges afforded to any other human.
I think all this is indicative of the same anti-intellectual disease that is at least partially propagated by the fundamentalists in our society who have far too much access to the minds of our children.
That's what I think.
quote:Originally posted by Skeptik:quote:Originally posted by LMM:
You're implying that if you are religious, you have no science background and vice versa.
No, not at all. Remember, I was once "religious."
If you care to read the site that I stole this stuff from, he explains it a little better but what I took away from it was the thought that perhaps some people are not capable (due to brainwashing or perhaps even genetics) of grasping fundamental concepts that I take for granted.
You, LMM, are obviously well versed in matters of reality. You are perfectly able to compartmentalize your religion with your science. You know certain obvious facts about the universe and, if you didn't, would almost certainly be willing to learn the facts, assimilate them, and perhaps adjust your religion accordingly.
Some people, on the other hand, are perfectly able or willing to deny those same facts or are missing some mechanism that would allow them to assimilate the fact into their worldview.
A recent example of this might be this: I have always known that there were many other stories that resembled that of the story of Jesus. Miraculous births, ascensions into heaven, resurrections, have all been common knowledge to me since I was just a little one. Didn't everyone know this stuff?
But there is a person here who is close to my age that has somehow never managed to hear of those stories. Despite showing some pretty strong evidence that these stories have been told for thousands of years by hundreds of cultures, this person still says (essentially), "Not true at all. Those stories never happened. My story is the only true one."
This person denies reality in favor of his own. I never cease to be fascinate with that mental process. This poll question is a feeble attempt to identify this vague denial process and perhaps understand it a little better.
quote:Originally posted by LMM:
As stated I have never had a conflict. Why should I?
quote:Originally posted by Skeptik:
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I am sorry to inform you that you will burn in the Fires if you do not think the way certain people want you to think!
quote:Originally posted by Skeptik:quote:Originally posted by LMM:
As stated I have never had a conflict. Why should I?
I am sorry to inform you that you will burn in the Fires if you do not think the way certain people want you to think!
quote:The people who got this wrong are the same people who deny the reality of evolution or big bang or who insist that a mass of cells much smaller than this period (.) is a live human being worthy of all rights and privileges afforded to any other human.
quote:Originally posted by SardonicPoet:
That, sir, is a rather unscientific assumption.
quote:Originally posted by DeepFat:
L,
Save me a place by the fire, willya?
DF
quote:'''You, LMM, are obviously well versed in matters of reality. You are perfectly able to compartmentalize your religion with your science.'''
I suppose that's one way of putting it. I don't consider my faith to be a separate part of who I am (just devoid of science reasoning). I have never had a conflict of the two. Big Bang-God did it. Evolution-yes. Man from chimp-no.
Earth age 4.5 billion years-yes. Bible history of man-6000 years-yes, as long as time is treated as God's time frame, not man's.
Bible perfect-no. Bible as the word of God-yes, but through man's interpretation from many times frames and many views.
As stated I have never had a conflict. Why should I?
quote:Originally posted by LMM:quote:Originally posted by DeepFat:
L,
Save me a place by the fire, willya?
DF
Got the weinners and marshmallows all ready DF. You bring the beer!
PS: None of that 'lite' crap, that would be HELL!
quote:Originally posted by SardonicPoet:
1) You have no idea who chose the incorrect answers.
2) You therefore have no idea of the religious beliefs of said incorrect participants.
3) Did I really have to spell this out to you?
quote:Originally posted by DeepFat:
I'll make it Grolsch, then.
DF
I hope there are bottle openers in Hell.
quote:Originally posted by big red afro:
i cant believe some people are getting this wrong
quote:Originally posted by DeepFat:
I'll make it Grolsch, then.
DF
I hope there are bottle openers in Hell.
quote:Originally posted by LMM:quote:Originally posted by DeepFat:
L,
Save me a place by the fire, willya?
DF
Got the weinners and marshmallows all ready DF. You bring the beer!
PS: None of that 'lite' crap, that would be HELL!