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A human trying to figure out how we got here with math is like a rat trying to figure out why it's in a cage using nothing but its own poop.� Even if someone did claim to figure it out, you'd just be taking them at their word.� You wouldn't understand it.� There are no genius mathematicians on the SLAP forum.� You essentially might as well be snake handling.� Most people side with atheism because they want to seem intelligent and independent from anything.� Or as Neal Stephenson put it;
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Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
It's hip now.� That's cool.� In crowd.� I get it.� Doesn't make it any more right than asking a Magic 8-Ball.� Those were in for a while too though, so whatever you're into.
I just can't get over how regular this is. It's like, I don't want to feel like I'm superior but it's hard not to when I look at something like this. Oh, and a better analogy than the rat making up shit with his shit would be something like math is akin reading the blueprints of the universe and gaining more understanding of its structure as we go.
Its also mindblowingly dumb because we don't just assume or have faith in the correctness of scientists. Those rockets they designed to go up into space based on math and physics worked, because they were right- it doesn't take a math genius to know. Then when they successfully did use rockets to go into space, you know what they found? A round Earth that rotates around the sun, just like Gallileo said, based on math and physics since space travel clearly wasn't a possibility in his time. THEN after they did all that, you know what they did? They shot fucking satelites into orbit, using math and science equations, allowing me to watch 500 tv stations and post long and stupid rants about
Dylan. on the internet, because not only could fucking math and science successfully shoot a satellite into space, it could be used to accurately locate its position so that these transmissions can be sent all over the world through motherfucking space. Why? Because SCIENCE. The nice thing is, I don't need to know the math or physics of it all, I just see never ending proof in my daily life that these physicist guys have a pretty goddamned good handle on how all this shit works. We could get into how many incorrect aspects of what I just wrote are proclaimed in the bible and expected to be taken on faith, but it doesn't really matter. Science as we know it disproves all religious texts in existence. It doesn't replace them. If their is a god or creative force, it hasn't revealed itself to humanity. Its that simple.