I still hate using the term “believe” when it comes to science, but these are still interesting (and telling) results.
Seeking free-thinkers, atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, all those who share doubt with organized religion, and the supernatural.
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This tumblr posts a new discussion topic each Friday, and features one unique Free-Thinker each Monday. Tell us what you think.
It's a work in process... Try it out, and feel free to give feedback. Ask Submit
September 29, 2011
September 6, 2011
"Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close."
— Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)
(via the-sexpat-life)
August 24, 2011
"My father described it as a means of error-correction. If you are a reporter and you simply relay what a scientist tells you, you are not doing your whole job. You must keep an open and critical mind—be scientifically minded yourself—to most effectively convey science in the breezy news world of today. Samuel Butler in the 19th century said scientists are the priests of the modern age and must be watched very closely. Science is so effective that scientists and scientific spokesmen are considered authorities. But, as my father emphasized, science belongs to the people and its methods and results must be studied by everybody if we are to thrive, or even survive, as a species."
— Dorion Sagan - Science Writer and Son of Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
(Source: ikenbot, via divineirony)
August 17, 2011
James Randi explains homeopathy
If you believe that homeopathic medicine can treat ailments better than medicine that has been scientifically proven to work, you are acting irrational. In this short video James Randi explains homeopathy. This is a portion of the lecture Randi gave at Princeton in 2001.
The full video is here: James Randi Lecture at Princeton 2001.
James Randi dismantles homeopathy.
As shown by Randi in the video, there is no way homeopathy can work according to chemistry as we know it; the math simply doesn’t work out. At commonly-available retail dilutions, there is a vanishingly small chance that the product contains even one molecule of the supposedly-active ingredient—which is typically an antidote to the desired effect, if not an outright poison.
(Source: youtube.com, via skeptv)
August 9, 2011
Creationists Accidentally Validate Human Evolution
The above table summarizes the conclusions of about a dozen creationist essays, classifying hominid fossils as either humans or apes. If, as creationists claim, the ape and humans species were created spontaneously and distinctly, there should be no issue grouping a fossil in one group or the other. As shown above, creationists can’t even agree among themselves which species each fossil corresponds to, inadvertently supporting the evolutionary theory of human origins.
Notice the gradual change in consensus over ape or human. Then notice that the skulls are in chronological order.
Anyone?
(via deejaylate)
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