Can we please have a planet for just us sane people?

[misterx]

Ben Stein has made a movie decrying "big science's" oppression of the "smart new idea" of intelligent design. Unfortunately, he isn't trying to be a comedian this time.

http://expelledthemovie.com/

Folks, if you're going to float a theory that a big man in the sky made it happen, here is the test I will apply to your arguments. I will substitute the phrase "my hairdryer" for the phrase "the big man in the sky". If the evidence supports the fact that my hairdryer may have created the universe, I will listen. If it doesn't, you need to get over your fascination with the imaginary sky man.

I want to point out the "no intelligence allowed" tagline is extremely ironic.

Comments

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

"Intelligent Design" is not science, I agree. I have long believed that science -- experiment, investigation, measurement -- could someday find "God," but I don't think ID is science.

I'm also frustrated by some loudmouth atheists who insist that our lack of scientific evidence for the existence of some sort of god is proof that no god exists. We haven't scientifically disproven the existence of a god or gods, although we may have scientifically proven that one person (or group's) "proof" for the existence of God doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny. There's an important distinction between those two things.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Agreed... there is simply not enough data to know. That's why I can't justify attaching myself to any particular religion, it's all a bunch of He-said/She-said. Some seem more in line with my personal beliefs than others, but hey, who is to say I'm not way off base, about gay marriage, for instance. Maybe the spiritual power(s) that be really do abhor it.

It's going to be a really disappointing day when we get our science up to snuff and realize our existence was created by an overworked mid-level manager in an alien bureaucracy. It *would* explain a lot though.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Shades of Douglas Adams! Or Ursula LeGuin, who wrote a great short story about some space travelers who discovered that the creator is an 11-year-old kid named Bill Koffman who sorta accidentally created the universe as a game which he is now growing bored with and about to abandon.