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Science is the New Santa Claus
This thread was immediately inspired by the following post:
I don't wish to single out Pedestrian; his post was just timely and handy.
I've been reading silly posts like his -- from materialists, scientific naturalists, atheists, scientismatists and intellectual slackers -- for ten years.
It's high time someone called them on this baloney.
Science has cultural importance, to be sure, but it ain't ALL THAT.
After anesthesia and antibiotics and a few other medical scientific developments, nothing science tells us or gives us is of any importance in any ultimate sense.
That bears repeating:
Nothing science tells us or gives us is of any importance in any ultimate sense
Science by and large gives us TOYS.
Techno Toys.
That's why some of us love science so much.
Science is Santa Claus.
So we all had better not pout, we'd better not shout,
we'd better not cry, and we all know why
Whereas...
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us much more than science
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us an understanding of the human condition
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us values
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us a reason to live
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion are of real importance to humanity
Science gives us nothing of value
Science gives us toys
Science is Santa
Please don't quote the entire OP on the first page of the thread
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This thread was immediately inspired by the following post:
Science, 1000 years of which was denied by the christian and muslim churches.
Humankind is still paying the price with codified prohibitions to stem cell research....for one major abomination.
I don't wish to single out Pedestrian; his post was just timely and handy.
I've been reading silly posts like his -- from materialists, scientific naturalists, atheists, scientismatists and intellectual slackers -- for ten years.
It's high time someone called them on this baloney.
Science has cultural importance, to be sure, but it ain't ALL THAT.
After anesthesia and antibiotics and a few other medical scientific developments, nothing science tells us or gives us is of any importance in any ultimate sense.
That bears repeating:
Nothing science tells us or gives us is of any importance in any ultimate sense
Science by and large gives us TOYS.
Techno Toys.
That's why some of us love science so much.
Science is Santa Claus.
So we all had better not pout, we'd better not shout,
we'd better not cry, and we all know why
Whereas...
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us much more than science
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us an understanding of the human condition
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us values
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion give us a reason to live
Poetry, Art, Music, and Religion are of real importance to humanity
Science gives us nothing of value
Science gives us toys
Science is Santa
Please don't quote the entire OP on the first page of the thread
Conserve DP bandwidth
Thank you