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- jjgames, on 11/17/2008, -72/+353The majority of scientists also believed the world was flat. Science is not majority rule. Science is what can be proven. Intelligent design can't be proven so it shouldn't even be considered in science.
- UncleCrapper, on 11/17/2008, -18/+175So what's wrong with the remaining 1%?
- KaiserArny, on 11/17/2008, -15/+143They're all biased anyway. They've been brainwashed by all those atheist books that claimed to be based on science and unprovable theories that are rampant in colleges and universities.
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- radicaldementia, on 11/17/2008, -3/+130While I wholeheartedly agree with your point, I gotta nit-pick. Most scientists knew the Earth was round from very early on. That whole Christopher Columbus flat-earth thing we all learned in elementary school is not true. By the late 1400s, the estimated circumference of the Earth was already fairly accurate. Columbus was actually wrong becuase he thought the Earth was much smaller than most people believed, which is why everyone thought he was crazy by thinking sailing West would get you to the Indies faster, which is also why he had so much trouble getting financed for his voyages, and which is why he thought he had made it to the Indies when he discovered San Salvador.
- maeon3, on 11/17/2008, -13/+119Science is not a popularity contest. We do not settle disagreements of science with democracy.
When you use popularity contests to convince people of things then you stoop to the level of the evangelical that's high on Jesus preaching a nice Sunday sermon. - GregFD3S, on 11/17/2008, -23/+124If you believe in creationism you're not a ***** scientist!
- Culero, on 11/17/2008, -7/+95Science, it works bitches
- GeeksSpeakFont, on 11/17/2008, -22/+109everything's bigger in texas-- including the population that discredits intelligent design!
- Rocketman1882, on 11/17/2008, -8/+90They work at A&M.
- xaeon, on 11/17/2008, -0/+72Actually, not true. We'd already realised that the Earth was spherical by around 330BC, and it was the general consensus amongst those who set out to study it by 4BC. So, pretty much everyone was well aware that the Earth was a sphere by the time that the scientic method began (around the middle ages).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_mythology
And in regards to your remark about science and intelligent design, when you have two competing theories with only one of them being backed by all empirical evidence, DNA evidence, etc, that is quite clearly the one to go for. Evolution is proven and therefore logically intelligent design is disproven (unless you hold less stringent views of intelligent design such as evolution started by a god). - trogdor282, on 11/17/2008, -3/+57ID is a political trick designed to package religion as science. It's braindead as a religious idea because it's not faith-based, and braindead as a scientific idea because it's not evidence-based. It's just... stupid.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+44"Science is what can be proven."
This statement is wrong. Science is the business of proving things wrong. When we can no longer find ways to prove a given hypothesis is wrong and it holds up against scrutiny from the worldwide scientific community it becomes a theory which is basically a very strongly believed idea (gravity, atoms, germs, evolution, etc.)
All of these things could still be proven wrong with more evidence and information and often these ideas are tweaked from time to time as we learn more. Atomic theory is a good example of this. - apexracing, on 11/17/2008, -21/+61This means clever people live in Texas. I no longer despair for humanity.
- commenter01, on 11/17/2008, -1/+41
1) Digg is probably not the best place to ask philosophical questions.
2) Your comment has nothing to do with the comment you're replying to.
3) According to flying spaghetti monsterism, tiny, minuscule meatballs are the most basic unit of matter. They taste especially good with tomato sauce. - wollsmosh, on 11/17/2008, -4/+401% is a big number for science professors. I doubt it would be as high in other places.
- kingmanic, on 11/17/2008, -5/+41Let me paraphrase what you said : "I watched a propaganda piece and now I hold a stupid opinion".
Would you like to watch a few old drug PSA's and form your opinion on minorities from those? How about watching Nazi propaganda and forming your opinion of Jews based on that? I know why don't you watch Micheal Moore films and use that as your exclusive source of facts on America from that. . . - brenlez, on 11/17/2008, -7/+39Meh.
- Senturion, on 11/17/2008, -4/+33In other news...1% of Texas science professors eat paste.
- virtualonliner, on 11/17/2008, -5/+33I don't believe in evolution because what majority of scientists say. I believe in it because it can be proved by logical, scientific evidence. Having said that, should the rest 1% be even considered scientists? They are discrediting evidence for sake of their belief. Unless some proof (other than written accounts in Bible or some other religious book) come forward (which will never), Intelligent Design will be a nut-case theory to me.
- xero69, on 11/17/2008, -2/+28No, Gee Dubya is NOT from Texas. He was born in Connecticut then moved to Texas while still a young boy.
- CaptHuggyFace, on 11/17/2008, -4/+29Science and religious belief are not mutually exclusive. But keep science and religion separate--there's no more sense in trying to prove beliefs than there is in praying to Stephen Hawking.
- NinjaPig, on 11/17/2008, -6/+29Every biology and genetics professor I've had in the University of Texas explicitly stated before the class that evolution is a fact and anything else is bs.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -10/+32Now if we could just get 99% of republican politicians to follow suit. Do you know that 4 out of 5 GOP candidates for the presidency didn't believe in evolution? That's pretty scary.
- NodOfficer, on 11/18/2008, -0/+20But even then, it still works. It just wasn't the outcome you were expecting.
- evilesttoast, on 11/17/2008, -1/+21Well, I'm a Christian who believes in evolution.
- oblique63, on 11/17/2008, -0/+19no... but the fact that it's not a proper scientific theory, makes it an invalid theory ;)
- Vectorkov, on 11/17/2008, -2/+21You have 10 brain cells.
- grungegbunny, on 11/17/2008, -1/+19Meanwhile politicians think they know science better and attempt to change curriculum in schools.
- MattNF, on 11/17/2008, -1/+17Intelligent Design isn't a theory. Saying it's a theory implies it has proof/evidence it its favor, which it does not. ID is not even a hypothesis either, considering it can't be tested.
It's a conjecture or idea at best. - FishHammer, on 11/17/2008, -1/+17So how does it feel to be stupid enough to generalize one of the most populated states in the country just because it's in the south? I really want to know.
- commenter01, on 11/17/2008, -0/+16Statistical error. Noise.
- supferrets, on 11/17/2008, -2/+18http://www.expelledexposed.com/
I can't believe you bought Ben Stein's propaganda *****. The site above fully debunks it. - inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+16it's rAmen, gingerboy, get it right or pay the price.
- MattNF, on 11/17/2008, -10/+25That's an unprovable statement, which is not science. So no.
- wollsmosh, on 11/17/2008, -11/+26The real news here is that 1% DO believe in intelligent design. wtf.
- kingmanic, on 11/17/2008, -0/+15The flat earth belief is a bad example. As Ratles pointed out (but perhaps with a ignorant ulterior motive) it was only the ignorant peasantry that believed it was flat. Sailors and anyone who could read would have been mostly been aware that it was round. It depended on the culture and the period. for the majority of all times and the majority of all cultures would have been aware that the earth was spherical or round. It's an inevitable conclusion once you travel by ocean.
- willster580, on 11/17/2008, -2/+17Baylor.
- cle2105, on 11/18/2008, -0/+15He wasn't American
- LukeL99, on 11/17/2008, -0/+14Of the %1 that responded that way, %100 wrote in at the bottom "JUST KIDDING".
- D3koy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+14Here is where that argument loses steam. People with facts (for the sake of this discussion we'll call them "scientists") were pretty sure the earth was round. The thought that the earth was flat came from the people in charge, who were afraid of people with new ideas, based on facts, that might undermine their control over the population (for the sake of this discussion we'll call them "the clergy"). So in this argument people 300 years ago were stupid because we listened to "the clergy", not "the scientists". I'll give you a few minutes to think of a new argument.
- FishHammer, on 11/17/2008, -8/+22in other news, the sky is blue and the sun rises and sets at regular intervals
- grungegbunny, on 11/17/2008, -0/+14What makes ID an invalid theory is.. news flash ITS NOT A THEORY!. Theories require scientific evidence to receive the label of theory. Learn more science.
- Murdats, on 11/17/2008, -2/+16no one said it was scientific, but if we didn't use scientific consensus as a starting block everyone would have to research everything related to anything they are doing, scientific consensus allows people to make the assumption that the evidence holds for a premise and that enough research and validation has been done that it can be assumed.
scientific consensus isn't science, but its both logical and useful - abizzy, on 11/17/2008, -6/+19Too bad we can't get those numbers outside of an educational system...
- fuxxx, on 11/17/2008, -5/+18You'd also have to believe that light on earth came before the sun, and that there is no explanation for dinosaurs or any fauna existing before humans.
Christians need to understand that genesis is a figurative story, it simply can't be taken literally. -
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