Atheists and their jargon of insults

[Little Dragon]

Okay, so what do you find wrong with the relevant data?

I do not follow. What data?

 

[Little Dragon]

In the 1950's science shut down mass transit in the US in order to sell more oil, tires, and cars.

Utterly absurd statement. "Science" has no control over government policy decisions, you speak of the scientific base of knowledge and the scientific community as if it was some sort of monolithic entity. Total nonsense. If you want bad mouth the scientific method, there are better and more logical ways to do so. Who would benefit from car sales? Not scientists lol. Inane.

 

[cladking]

Can you explain how an individual can have a scientific perspective that precludes a belief in science???

Science is not a belief system except to those whom believe in Peers and that all things are explained by science.

 

[Little Dragon]

Science is not a belief system except to those whom believe in Peers and that all things are explained by science.

There is no explaining your reasoning.

 

[McBell]

You guys might want to learn to take what you can dish.

I hear this line quite a bit.
Which is most ironic seeing as it is the theist who have set the bar.

Now that some atheists have decided to bring themselves down to the set bar, theists are getting all in an uproar.
Though they really should be happy about it.
At least now there are atheists who, albeit a small minority of them, can, at least marginally, justify the theist victim complex.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Science is not a belief system except to those whom believe in Peers and that all things are explained by science.

You believe in Peers. You're the only one that ever invokes them. Almost like a mantra.

 

[cladking]

Utterly absurd statement. "Science" has no control over government policy decisions

This might be funny if I had a sense of humor.

You do realize that the federal government, oil, car, and tire industries openly conspired to shut down mass transit in order to increase sales.

Of course at the time there was also an effort to decentralize cities to contain the damage of a nuclear exchange. But the latter object could have been achieved by improvements in mass transit as well. Today the government pours money into such boondoggles to make a few rich. People don't want to give up their cars except to get to the airports.

 

[McBell]

This might be funny if I had a sense of humor.

You do realize that the federal government, oil, car, and tire industries openly conspired to shut down mass transit in order to increase sales.

Of course at the time there was also an effort to decentralize cities to contain the damage of a nuclear exchange. But the latter object could have been achieved by improvements in mass transit as well. Today the government pours money into such boondoggles to make a few rich. People don't want to give up their cars except to get to the airports.

Interesting.
Now all you need to do is tie this to science....

Otherwise it is yet another bold empty claim.

 

[cladking]

Interesting.
Now all you need to do is tie this to science....

Otherwise it is yet another bold empty claim.

You never saw Jessica Rabbit (she was just drawn that way)!

 

[Little Dragon]

This might be funny if I had a sense of humor.

You do realize that the federal government, oil, car, and tire industries openly conspired to shut down mass transit in order to increase sales.

Why would I care one tiny bit? I am not a US citizen. No offence.
Has nothing to do with scientific progress.

 

[cladking]

Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared

A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight.

www.archdaily.com

This was transformative and highly destructive. It set up most of today's problems including high CO2 production and planned obsolescence (the intentional production of garbage from valuable raw materials).

 

[cladking]

Has nothing to do with scientific progress.

Neither does the widespread belief in science. It wasn't believers in science who came up with the inventions to create the internet. It was people with ideas.

 

[McBell]

You never saw Jessica Rabbit (she was just drawn that way)!

As I thought, no support...

 

[Dan From Smithville]

This might be funny if I had a sense of humor.

You do realize that the federal government, oil, car, and tire industries openly conspired to shut down mass transit in order to increase sales.

Of course at the time there was also an effort to decentralize cities to contain the damage of a nuclear exchange. But the latter object could have been achieved by improvements in mass transit as well. Today the government pours money into such boondoggles to make a few rich. People don't want to give up their cars except to get to the airports.

According to Nicholas Bloom, the transit issue can largely be laid at the feet of the American people for poor policy choices and not on secret conspiracies. But what does he know. He's just an expert. We can dismiss his findings by calling him a Peer and never addressing anything he has to say.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Neither does the widespread belief in science. It wasn't believers in science who came up with the inventions to create the internet. It was people with ideas.

It was scientists, who are people with ideas.

 

[Little Dragon]

Neither does the widespread belief in science. It wasn't believers in science who came up with the inventions to create the internet. It was people with ideas.

A mindless statement. All computers require deep understanding of physics and information technology. Did you think the physics behind electronics was just found in a skip?

 

[cladking]

A mindless statement. All computers require deep understanding of physics and information technology.

Let's not forget the importance of flying a kite (as soon as the arms of the lightning are emptied).

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Let's not forget the importance of flying a kite (as soon as the arms of the lightning are emptied).

What?

 

[Little Dragon]

Let's not forget the importance of flying a kite (as soon as the arms of the lightning are emptied).

Never fly a copper kite, with a copper string. Very bad idea.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Never fly a copper kite, with a copper string. Very bad idea.

I recall watching a story about a scientist in New Mexico that had developed a method to study lightning by shooting a copper wire into the air attached to some sort of rocket. He was very successful from all accounts and the video.