conman03 said:
Contrary to popular belief... I am athiest. It just pisses me off how many people stopped drinking diet caffine free pepsi because a scientist HYPOTHESISED it could cause cancer...5 yrs later? It turns out he was dead WRONG! Scientists dont know anything for certain and yet our whole society changes and evolves(if you will) based on scientifc research. If these "facts" are wrong then our society rides on the back of non-existant hopes and dreams while theses scientists DESICRATE others hopes of a higher power while misleading the non-belivers. It does nither party any good. These acts can no longer be ignored. If they are going to crush someone with the 'big bang theory' They better be damn well be certain of it.
On the flip side, people pin all of ther hopes on the slimmest of doubts, god may or may not to exist to exist...thefore he must exist.
I brought this up in the first place, because The thought of being brought into the future, by people who can't tell if a FISH is extinct...scares me to death!
You fail to realize that without science we have a society living in huts hunting with rocks. Yes, scientists make mistakes. But you know, it's the media that take those mistakes and spin them into something that society screws up.
As far as them not knowing the fish was extinct, how do you expect them to know? They had fossiles that were millions of years old and had no current living example. Of course once a living example was found they promptly did come out and say "Hey, check it out. We were wrong. Turns out this one aint dead."
Again, we've explored very very little of our world. Hell, a few years ago in NYC they found an entirely new species of insect. IN the damn city. This world is so complex that biologists can't possibly know the current status of every living species.
It's important to remember that there are different types of science. The guys who missed the non-extinct status of this fish are not the same guys who brought us the light bulb, flight, the X-Ray or the computer. There are thousands of fields and making a blanket statement against science based on the oversight of some stupid fish is ignorant.
Which would you rather have? A fallable group of men who are trying to better humanity or a group of men doing who believe they are infallible doing whatever the fuck they want?