you want a serious answer or a non-serious answer?
serious answer: both the buddha (religion) and einstein (science) claim to answer the unanswerable, and both hold to the claim - at the end - that the answer is the question not the answer. this is intolerable. i want answers goddamit!
non-serious answer: both are dead. so if you meet someone claiming to be them, kill them both before it gets worse.
the other answer: both answers above are exactly the same
I think you are too hard on science, John. It has done a pretty good job of answering a lot of questions about our world in the relatively short span of time that it has been free to inquire without getting burned at the stake.
Science at least keeps asking questions...unlike religion which thinks that even asking shows a lack of faith.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
I think you are too hard on science, John. It has done a pretty good job of answering a lot of questions about our world in the relatively short span of time that it has been free to inquire without getting burned at the stake.
Science at least keeps asking questions...unlike religion which thinks that even asking shows a lack of faith.
minimalist -
ok. a little history. i grew up with some pretty heavy science . starting at five years old i was out in the american west with some big paleontological names, tagging along courtesy of my dad. they dissed my excellent find record because they claimed i was closer to the ground than they were! and i grew up that way all the way through. jellyfish in the bass formation of the grand canyon. white river formation miocene. the fish and leaf shales near green river, utah. the great grandson of red cloud explaining the buffalo hide picture of the custer massacre, which was literally just nailed to the clapboard wall, including the doctor who was pictured comitting suicide, pistol to mouth, and that same grandson picking out those whiteyes who really fought. and the ghost dance/fighting shirt, at another place, of crazy horse who died, bayonetted, there. and i remember the shock of recognition to this day when i wandered up a canyon near kanab, utah at about the age of eight, and found my first rock shelter with stone granaries buried in sand and a scatter of black on grey pottery. scientists were my heroes. then i learned better, later on, the kind of tenure/publishing/political posturing/and lying that goes with science - or religion. i'm at peace with that now. and i'm equally hard on both.
Well, in spite of that, at least most of us no longer think that the sun revolves around the earth.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Well, in spite of that, at least most of us no longer think that the sun revolves around the earth.
minimalist -
whattya mean, most of us no longer think that the sun revolves around the earth. are you some kind of freak. just get up in the morning and observe the obvious!
and i try, every day, to preserve my sense of humor
and i try, every day, to preserve my sense of humor
High level of difficulty to that trick.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
