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Einstein A Go Go?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by RAVENBLACK, Sep 26, 2011.

  1. thefanwithnoname

    thefanwithnoname Well-Known Member

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    would that be the equivilant of sleeping with sisters?
    or mother and daughter?
     
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  2. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Einstein was not exactly witless
    He claimed atoms were the little-ist
    But when he did a bit of split-iness
    He frightened everybody sh!tless
     
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    Whether Einstein is wrong or not in the end it's mankind or physics which will triumph. Thing is unlike religion, science is always changing and doesn't put it's blind faith in an idol or a presumed genius like Einstein.
     
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  4. RAVENBLACK

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    **** me you are thick. I said in this instance Einstein MAY be proved wrong. Fairly fundamental. Scientists do not know everything unless you think the world is still flat.

    Fukin diddy. Try thinking instead of blindly accepting like a religous zealot.
     
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  5. thefanwithnoname

    thefanwithnoname Well-Known Member

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    i suppose there are 'good' and 'bad' examples everywhere. exceptions to the rule if you like

    IMO generally religion and science have 'got along' and the likes of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Boyle, and so on were religious yet able to explore.

    thats not to say everything was/is smooth, there are fundamentalists on both sides. generally they keep each other 'honest' imo
     
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  6. The Raging Oxter

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    <laugh>
     
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  7. thefanwithnoname

    thefanwithnoname Well-Known Member

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    i think the problem with religion is that it changes too often or is changed to 'fit' by those who believe they are in charge of it

    when taken to its origins, religion encourages science/debate

    to use a crude example, science accepts its in the nature of man procreate/have sex. so does religion
    it was greed that lead to the notion of celibacy
     
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  8. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Has it ever occurred to you that these scientists did it in spite of religion not because of?
     
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  9. PleaseNotPoll

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    Galileo was put on trial for heresy for suggesting that the sun didn't revolve around the world.
     
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  10. ToL1D7

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    Einstein is a ****ing genius regardless of the outcome. Anyone can be smart, but he was smart, wise, and have a ****ing cool afro almost! the guy's a ****in legend, don't let the ****ers in CERN tell ya otherwise <ok>
     
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  11. RAVENBLACK

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    I did not imply that at all.

    You blind acceptance is cave-like though.

    Sometimes people get things wrong. What is your issue with that?

    I am all for science and developmment but to go through life blinkered like yourself is the same as blindly following religion.
     
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  12. RAVENBLACK

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    And? The Earth used to be flat remember.

    Leeches was a cure for practically every disease at one point.
     
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  13. TommyNooka

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    Just off the top of my head I do know Galileo spent the last third of his life under house arrest because he dared to claim the earth revolved around the sun, and that was his punishment only after he recanted this opinion.
     
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  14. thefanwithnoname

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    by the catholic church, despite beig a roman catholic himself and was a 'favourite of the pope
    a pope who felt let down and was ridiculed by galileo's book 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'

    this doesnt change what I say regarding religion in its true origins

    the catholic church also advocates celibacy for its priests but it was an add on ensuring inheritence and wealth, this being my point
     
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  15. thefanwithnoname

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    most religions started as underground movements

    and some of the experiments including digging up the dead, which i think is still against the law
     
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  16. thefanwithnoname

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    the irony of science being free etc is that its followers are quick to mock others
     
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  17. thefanwithnoname

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    my understanding is that it was away of ensuring that the wealth of the priests was passed on to the church
    there is no biblical arguement for celibacy

    I will of course stand corrected <ok> if not so
     
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  18. PleaseNotPoll

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    You used Galileo as one of your examples of science and religion getting along, TFWNN.
    Clearly a bad example, at best.

    As you claim to accept evolution, aren't you a follower of science?
     
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  19. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Yes, I can say with a fair degree of certainly that digging up the dead is very much illegal!
     
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  20. PleaseNotPoll

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    Wasn't the grave robbing only needed because of religious objections to studying cadavers?
     
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