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Yo, zombieslayer, check your spam folder.

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Click on the picture for a whole collection of this meme.

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Ha. I guess you'd have to watch that History channel clip to understand, eh?

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Yeah the history channel has a lot of shows about the theory of ancient aliens helping the primitive people establish their cultures and evolution of course. For Wade, Cheesey and Christianity's sake - I hope their wrong. I'm going to just keep an open mind and hope my ancestors aren't all a bunch of dumbasses. I'm starting to lean more towards science than 2500 year old dessert fables.

Help me Wade and Cheesey to keep the faith.

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I think the idea that our ancestors were so much dumber than we are is blatant chauvinism. If anything, I tend to think they were smarter than we are. They set all the wheels in motion. Everything we've done since is just incremental improvements of what they did first.

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Whatever man, I'm talking about my immediate ancestors - who I'm almost positive were 90% dumbasses. Somehow, someway they managed to get all the good junk together to produce the irritating bastard you all have grown to love named Dakotat. [grin1]

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1. All of science is based on sampling.
2. No matter how good the sample, making an inference from a sample requires a willingness to believe that which is not in the sample is "like" that which is.
3. The ability to "repeat the experiment" doesn't change #1 or #2. It just changes the sample size a bit.
4. And when it comes to matters of life, the universe, and everything, the sample is really small compared to the population.


You can't practice science and make inferences about its results without acts of faith.

In the end, the only question is where you put your faith.

When it is in reference to worldly things like prices and material goods and the strength of bridges, I'm perfectly happy to base my faith on reason and human sampling methods.

When it comes to matters of the nature of life, the universe, and everything, well, all I can say is human beings have gotten the science wrong over and over again. I do not expect this to change. All our opining and our pontification and our scholarship is smaller than a gnat on the buttocks of an elephant. I do not expect this to change either, no matter how many hundreds of Nobel Prizes we award to each other, and no matter how many tens of thousands of books we publish, and no matter how many millions of scholarly articles we scientists publish. Time is too long and the universe is too wide and, most important, the possibilities are too uncountable.

If it were just choosing between the desert fables of dead men, and the modern work of science and scholarship, I'd go with science and scholarship. But it isn't. It's about trusting men (yesterday's OR today's) or trusting God.

My money stays on God. I know man doesn't have a chance in hell of ever getting beyond samples -- or sampling error -- on his own.

Rejecting religion is fine, DakotaT. Religion is the activity of gnats.

Just don't reject God.

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I don't reject God, but I'm finding it harder and harder to accept Christianity and the whole trilogy - resurrection thing.

You realize I have a college education and excelled in my Western Civ classes? I'm not one of the sheeple walking over the cliff too willingly. Isn't it my duty to question everything?

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