Chris Hitch

[Dante]

Great view and listen

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Great view and listen

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Slurp down the KoolAid.






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[Dante]

Slurp down the KoolAid.

To the Editor:

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs."

"This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

Neil deGrasse Tyson
New York, Dec. 19, 2006

The writer, an astrophysicist, is director of the Hayden Planetarium.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

To the Editor:

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs."

"This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

Neil deGrasse Tyson
New York, Dec. 19, 2006

The writer, an astrophysicist, is director of the Hayden Planetarium.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson





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[Dante]

Trump's new pal:

To the Editor:

Re “Talk in Class Turns to God, Setting Off Public Debate on Rights” (news article, Dec. 18):

It is discouraging and depressing to read about a Kearny, N.J., teacher, David Paszkiewicz, declaring in his history class that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific, that dinosaurs were on Noah’s ark, that only Christians have a place in heaven and, referring to Jesus, “if you reject his gift of salvation, then you know where you belong.”

More discouraging and depressing are the reactions of the school principal and various citizens of Kearny who decry the student who exposed this abuse of trust by a public school teacher.

Mr. Paszkiewicz may be an excellent teacher, but when he wants to teach his evangelical version of religion, let him confine it to a religious class or church group. It has no place in a public school, let alone a history class.

As for those citizens of Kearny who apparently condemn the student who protested Mr. Paskiewicz’s religious statements in class rather than what is in fact a teacher’s proselytizing, perhaps they need to understand the true meaning of separation of church and state as opposed to what they think is an abridgement of First Amendment rights.

Peter Theil
Washington, Dec. 18, 2006

 

[Dante]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson





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Neil deGrasse Tyson - astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium.

OhPleaseJustQuit - just an average anonymous troll on a failing, online, message board.

 

[Dante]

a Kearny, N.J., teacher, David Paszkiewicz, declaring in his history class that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific, that dinosaurs were on Noah’s ark, that only Christians have a place in heaven and, referring to Jesus, “if you reject his gift of salvation, then you know where you belong.”



Dinosaurs and Humans did not exist together.

 

[Manonthestreet]

To the Editor:

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs."

"This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

Neil deGrasse Tyson
New York, Dec. 19, 2006

The writer, an astrophysicist, is director of the Hayden Planetarium.

ya do know the Ark is visible......sans Dinos of course

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Neil deGrasse Tyson - astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium.

OhPleaseJustQuit - just an average anonymous troll on a failing, online, message board.

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Wow!

We are so impressed by how clever you thought you sounded saying that!




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[Dante]

Wow!

We are so impressed by how clever you thought you sounded saying that!

Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it - Beating the Backfire Effect: How a Neurobiological Fear of Dissonance Divides Us and Prohibits Our Evolution​

“Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind,” I wrote in reflecting on the 7 most important things I learned in 7 years of Brain Pickings. It’s a conundrum most of us grapple with — on the one hand, the awareness that personal growth means transcending our smaller selves as we reach for a more dimensional, intelligent, and enlightened understanding of the world, and on the other hand, the excruciating growing pains of evolving or completely abandoning our former, more inferior beliefs as we integrate new knowledge and insight into our comprehension of how life works. That discomfort, in fact, can be so intolerable that we often go to great lengths to disguise or deny our changing beliefs by paying less attention to information that contradicts our present convictions and more to that which confirms them. In other words, we fail the fifth tenet of Carl Sagan’s timelessly brilliant and necessary Baloney Detection Kit for critical thinking: “Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours.”

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it - Beating the Backfire Effect: How a Neurobiological Fear of Dissonance Divides Us and Prohibits Our Evolution​

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“Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind,” I wrote in reflecting on the 7 most important things I learned in 7 years of Brain Pickings. It’s a conundrum most of us grapple with — on the one hand, the awareness that personal growth means transcending our smaller selves as we reach for a more dimensional, intelligent, and enlightened understanding of the world, and on the other hand, the excruciating growing pains of evolving or completely abandoning our former, more inferior beliefs as we integrate new knowledge and insight into our comprehension of how life works. That discomfort, in fact, can be so intolerable that we often go to great lengths to disguise or deny our changing beliefs by paying less attention to information that contradicts our present convictions and more to that which confirms them. In other words, we fail the fifth tenet of Carl Sagan’s timelessly brilliant and necessary Baloney Detection Kit for critical thinking: “Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours.”

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Wow!

Desperation.

It's so beautiful.

Let's have more.




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[daveman]

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”​

― Werner Heisenberg

 

[daveman]

Can't wait for the USMB atheists to hear how they're smarter than all these people:

List of Christians in science and technology​

Spoiler alert:

Spoiler: Click for a surprise!

They're not smarter.

 

[Dante]

 

[marvin martian]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson





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He's a buffoon who believes a man can turn in to a woman by putting on makeup and a dress.

 

[Winco]

Slurp down the KoolAid.

You've been slurping for YEARS.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Oh Dear Lord.....You are discounting him based on WHAT?
Fucking idiot.

 

[marvin martian]

You've been slurping for YEARS.

Oh Dear Lord.....You are discounting him based on WHAT?
Fucking idiot.

He's a buffoon who believes a man can turn in to a woman by putting on makeup and a dress.

 

[Winco]

He's a buffoon who believes a man can turn in to a woman by putting on makeup and a dress.

Link?

And yet you still believe that the Southern Confederates, AKA, the KKK, also the Conservative Class.........aren't the current racists.
Yup, the (D) started the KKK, but you are a fool to believe what you have been indoctrinated to believe.
Those Southern Conservative sure did it with you.

You have experienced a LIFETIME of indoctrination.