Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed the author of “Absence of Mind”, Marilynne Robinson. ”Absence of Mind” is an attack on atheists that fly the banner of science. At the beginning of the interview, Stewart asked some fairly straight forward questions, but only received lace doily answers. It was obvious that Robinson didn’t really have a core thesis to her book, and she only made random claims that religion and science aren’t mutually exclusive. Upon initially not receiving any revealing answers, Stewart failed to ask any more deeper probing questions. In fact, he did the opposite. He started to agree and sympathize with her. This lead to one of Stewart’s worst quotes of the evening:
The more you delve into science, the more it relies on faith.
Stewart was referring to antimatter, inferring that one needs faith to believe in antimatter. There is actually a lot of evidence that support’s antimatter’s existence. Faith is not required to believe in antimatter.
Robinson fails to see the simple fact that religion and science are mutually exclusive by definition. Religion relies on faith, and science relies on evidence. It is impossible to be a religious scientist. If someone claims they are, they are neither truly religious or a true scientist.
After listening to Robinson’s interview, I would not recommend buying her book, as it would most likely be a waste of time.
Since I signed up for my first Google account, which was sometime in 2006, Google has kindly been keeping track of my web history. As of today, I have performed a total of 20900 Google searches. That averages to about 14/day. In practice, I would have performed many more searches than that, for Google’s web history only keeps track of the searches made while I am logged in. I am rarely logged into my google account when I am on the computers at school, at friend’s places or on my phone. Also, when I first got my Google account I didn’t stay logged in all the time, so Google’s web history wouldn’t have known about a lot of my searches.
The calendar over to the right shows the Google searches that I have made last month. Most days I am performing between 50-100 searches, and I am breaching the 100 search/day mark on several days.
…yea…I probably spend too much time on the interwebs….
I realize that picking on creationists is almost too easy, and that I do it too much here, but sometimes it is just too hard to resist posting videos like this. Watching these kinds of videos triggers a bunch of mixed emotions in me. I normally start off laughing at the beginning, then shift to being angry, and then end up feeling sad for the children at the end. This really has to be considered child abuse.
This is just pure gold from Dr. Ahmed Kutty, the author of Adam’s Gene and the Mitochondrial Eve: The Non-incestuous Descent of Man from Adam and Eve: A Paleo-anthropologic and Scientific Synthesis and Evolution Based on the Epics of Hinduism the Bible And the Qur’an: What Are the Scriptures Saying?.
This is one of the funniest and saddest videos I’ve seen in a while.
Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed the author of “Absence of Mind”, Marilynne Robinson. ”Absence of Mind” is an attack on atheists that fly the banner of science. At the beginning of the interview, Stewart asked some fairly straight forward questions, but only received lace doily answers. It was obvious that Robinson didn’t really have a core thesis to her book, and she only made random claims that religion and science aren’t mutually exclusive. Upon initially not receiving any revealing answers, Stewart failed to ask any more deeper probing questions. In fact, he did the opposite. He started to agree and sympathize with her. This lead to one of Stewart’s worst quotes of the evening:
