here is the link to the essay for which this post is a response: http://www.preparingforeternity.com/sciencefaith.htm
Kunle would probably never speak to me again. Sorry man, but its ridiculous that you would post that on your wall.
No way that was Einstein man, stop making historical claims without quoting your sources. Its very misleading.
This is so ridiculous it's embarrassing. No professor of philosophy would be tricked by a stupid word game like this.
I don't know who that professor was, and I don't even have a college degree, but even I can see the stupidity of that argument.
That story was obviously written by someone who never attended school:
1. "Cold" and "Darkness" are just terms of language and how our senses(sight, touch) work. Scientists use terms like "temperature" and "luminosity" which are perfectly understood by even high-school students. If that guy was a college student he wouldn't even ask such questions!
2. Electromagnetism(the theory that explains electricity and magnetism are two facets of the same force) has withstood innumerable tests. The electromagnetic behavior of elementary particles is very well understood today, even one of the best understood fields in physics. Everyone has seen electricity(lightning) and magnetism(pattern made by iron fillings when placed over a bar-magnet). There is no faith involved here.
3. Evolution by natural selection is a theory that has been proven again and again through hundreds of years since its inception. It is a process that takes place over generations upon generations, the entire fields of genetics and paleontology depend upon this theory. To ignore the hundreds of years of research and the mountain of evidence in favor of evolution is just plain ignorant. Explaining why and how it works in detail would take me several pages. We did not evolve from monkeys! We had a common ancestor millions of years ago, and monkeys and humans evolved simultaneously. We are still evolving.
4. Even now, if evolution was somehow proven to be incorrect(which is extremely unlikely) and a new theory seems more plausible, biologists will immediately discard it and start using the new theory. Science works on observation. So far all observations of the natural world agree with evolution by natural selection, and NONE of the observations agree with the "God" hypothesis. The very fact that you have a useless appendix inside your belly is proof of evolution and how it is still going on. A world that was created by a god would be very different from our world, eg. we create robots that are fully functional, without any useless parts.
5. Why would anyone want to feel, touch or worst of all "smell" someone's brain? Just get an MRI-scan done and check your own brain out! These are just emotional arguments without any logic. As a fellow filmmaker, I am surprised you could not see through such a simple soap-opera like farce. Moreover, actually asking people to post it on their walls too is ridiculous!
Again, sorry dude, but this time you challenged my "beliefs" and we all have to fight for what we believe in, don't we? ;)
"Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true."
---Friedrich Nietzsche
Say yes to sanity and no to god. Read a fucking science-book. Peace.
