Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Religion on the rise?
God is a quantum superposition and our divine free will a quantum effect...hmm.
The offending film about "physics".
Rock on Richard Dawkins.
Here's the interesting point as I see it: This is clearly a religious film. It's sponsored by some sort of cult.
... I think it's another piece of evidence that there's an increasingly alarming amount of religion going on in the world, especially in the US.
Some years ago, I think I felt strongly that religion was, overall, a bad thing.
Then I got older and decided it was, like many bad habbits, mainly harmless - except for the poor old shanty-town catholics with 15 children. In our country at least, all the evidence about church attendance suggested it seemed to be mostly going away of its own accord. So: harmless in the developed world at least.
Now I think I'm swinging back to my former position - I think it's a real worry.
--- Damon De Ionno --- wrote:
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1484799,00.html
>
> I came across this in the Grauniad and thought that
> seeing as you are all intelligent adults whose
> opinions carry weight with your peers you should be
> aware of impending idiocy.
>
> Please warn anyone planning to see this film (for
> any
> reason other than research into America's ability to
> produce BLEEP on and industrial scale) or worse
> people
> telling others how great it was, that they have left
> the thinking human population.
>
> You were warned
>
> D.
The offending film about "physics".
Rock on Richard Dawkins.
Here's the interesting point as I see it: This is clearly a religious film. It's sponsored by some sort of cult.
... I think it's another piece of evidence that there's an increasingly alarming amount of religion going on in the world, especially in the US.
Some years ago, I think I felt strongly that religion was, overall, a bad thing.
Then I got older and decided it was, like many bad habbits, mainly harmless - except for the poor old shanty-town catholics with 15 children. In our country at least, all the evidence about church attendance suggested it seemed to be mostly going away of its own accord. So: harmless in the developed world at least.
Now I think I'm swinging back to my former position - I think it's a real worry.
--- Damon De Ionno --- wrote:
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1484799,00.html
>
> I came across this in the Grauniad and thought that
> seeing as you are all intelligent adults whose
> opinions carry weight with your peers you should be
> aware of impending idiocy.
>
> Please warn anyone planning to see this film (for
> any
> reason other than research into America's ability to
> produce BLEEP on and industrial scale) or worse
> people
> telling others how great it was, that they have left
> the thinking human population.
>
> You were warned
>
> D.
