The term ‘New Age’ is becoming more common. When I think of new age things, I think of magnetized wrist bands with healing power, healing crystals and phony spiritualism. They are all things that put mind over matter and they fall under pseudoscience.
One specific new age belief that really bothers me is the belief that intuition is better than rationalism and the scientific method. There are too many cases where our intuition is wrong, that we really can’t trust it all the time.
Another example of this is in the movie “What the bleep do we know?” Here, quantum mechanics is hijacked by pseudo-scientists that link it to new age thinking. They steal all of the scientific terms, but leave behind all the science.
Why hasn’t the term new age been claimed by science and reason? Shouldn’t an age of reason be the new age? I hope that someday our world will become one.
I saw this bumper sticker today and thought that it was worthy of having its picture taken. The sticker reads: “Growing the economy is shrinking the ecosystem.” I just thought that it was funning being on a Lexus SUV.
Here is a debate from Iraqi TV between a physicist and someone who thinks the world is flat. It’s pretty funny.
I have a feeling that it might be fake. Since I don’t understand the language, the captions could have been edited to say anything.
Here are a few highlights:
In response to why we see the top of an approaching ship first:
“The eye …. so far, no doctor has succeeded in understanding how the eye works.”
“we see with only half the eye. If we split the iris into half, we see with the upper half things that are far and with the lower half thins that are near.”
He says that scientists don’t know how the eye works, but he thinks he does?
On a full solar eclipse:
“This is because the moon is half the size of the sun . The moon’s diameter is 1,200,000km while that of the sun is 2,400,000km.”
“The sun circles the earth because it is smaller than the earth.”
That’s right, this blog is 100 posts old. Here are a few current stats that show some progress:
First post: August 20, 2007
Google Page Rank: 3/10
Alexa Traffic Rank: 124 057
Unique Visitors since day 1: 53 942
I have enjoyed blogging so far. It is like keeping a diary of all my ideas, but I am forced to express them well because I am sharing it with the public. I think I’m pretty much hooked on this blogging thing. I’m addicted.
Here is a video of a tour group giving biblically correct museum tours. It makes me sick how little they know about the methods of science and how they are ‘teaching’ this to innocent children. Dawkins has referred to scaring children about hellfire as child abuse. I consider these tours to be child abuse as well; they are possibly even worse than giving children nightmares about hell.
I was really surprised how passive the museum employees were. If I was an employee, I would have physically removed the ‘teachers’ from the premises.
I’ve been doing a fair amount of creationist bashing recently, and have have created a new category: “Creationist Bashing.” I don’t think that it really fits into the atheism category. Even though creationists are highly aligned with religion, I don’t consider them to be part of the argument on the existence of a divine being. Even if evolution were to be shown to be wrong, there is still no evidence for a god. This is why I don’t consider creationists to be part of the argument. They are just an easy target for a bit of occasional comedy.
Do you guys think that this is child abuse? If so, should it be punishable? I think so.
[via The Atheist Jew]
Here is a few of my favorite Dilbert quotes that I was saving in a text file while watching the two seasons of the TV show.
“I will not be pressured into having fun just because we arbitrarily use a base 10 counting system and a big round number is coming up” – on year 2000
“It seems to me that this whole charity concept is nothing but an exercise in redistribution of guilt”
“How did I end up with all this obsolete equipment, it seems to multiply”
Mom : “How did you get so distrustful”
Dilbert : “Well, I’m just guessing, but maybe it was because you lied to me about the toothfairy, then you lied to me about the easter bunny, then you lied to me about santa clause, then you lied to me about the stork brining babies”
Mom: “He knows about the stork”
Dogbert “My fault, I let him watch the nature channel and he put 2 and 2 together”
Dilber: “Now I don’t believe anything i’m told unless there’s proof”“I’m addicted to email. My endorphins spike when I get a message. When there are no messages, loneliness and despair overcome me.”
“Have you tried sending email to yourself?”
“We don’t talk about that.”
- Dilbert and DogbertEngineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
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