[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[William Flynn Wallace]

>…The Republican presidential candidates should be pleased. …John K Clark ​

 Ehhhh… ?  Which party should be pleased?

spike


The antiscience party, Spike, as you well know.  bill w



On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Maybe try and learn more about the universe by studying native Hawaiian
> religion.  Especially cosmogonies. I've found that religions around the
> world tend to retain a similar universal origin story that is very
> compelling, abstract, and similar to the scientific perspective.
>
> The humans of old studied the heavens and natural events for hundreds of
> thousands of years; I think that gives their protophysics intuition
> credibility.  Imagine you had a computer that, for a hundred millennia,
> recorded the position of the sun and stars, weather, natural selection of
> flora and fauna, geophysical processes, and how all of these interacted.  I
> wouldn't be surprised if that computer produced valuable insight.
>
> Back then when all there was to do was look at shit, have sex, and try not
> to die, everyone thought about nature all the time.  The stars were what
> they got instead of TV.  I think they were all probably smarter than the
> average American.  And they knew how to survive.  Unlike, I'm positive,
> most of us--but I wouldn't be surprised if Spike had some boy scout know
> how.
>
> Side question, I wonder, when did humans start having sex like
> today--passionately, and with with the pleasure of both parties considered?
>
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