Thog's Science Masterclass #28

[realthog]

There's really no comment required by this little gem culled from Conservapedia's editorial forum:

There's a broader point here. Why the big push for black holes by liberals, and big protests against any objection to them? If it turned out empirically that promoting black holes tends to cause people to read the Bible less, would you still push this so much? Certainly there is no practical justification to pushing black holes; no one will ever be helped by them in any way. 
                                                ----Andy Schlafly 12:03, 13 November 2009 (EST)

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[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

I grew up surrounded by avatars of that mindset, and it's pure denial. Natural phenomena can't be explained away other than by "God's will", and they get really flustered when God's will produces tornadoes, hurricanes, and black holes. If it all becomes a political issue, and that them damn libruls are working with Satan to test their faith, then it's easy to pretend that big consciousness-expansion concepts such as black holes simply don't exist. (I heard the mantra over and over while in high school: "People keep wondering about things 'out there,' and I'm telling you that you need to look instead to this book called the Holy Bible." Since the King James edition didn't mention black holes, dinosaurs, or quantum mechanics, it's easy to say that anybody bringing it up is a liberal troublemaker who's trying to question God.)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Natural phenomena can't be explained away other than by "God's will"

I've just been reading an intriguing opinion piece by Eric Michael Johnson that describes, in its first part, his own experience of this mindset: http://scienceblogs.com/primatediaries/2010/03/why_i_am_not_a_humanist.php