I, BM
299 792 458 m·s^−1 6.67384(80)×10−11 m³·kg^−1·s−2 6.626 069 57(29) × 10^−34 J·s 1.054 571 726(47) × 10^−34 J·s 4π × 10^−7 N·A^−2 = 1.256 637 061... × 10^−6 N·A^−2 8.854 187 817... × 10^−12 F·m−1 376.730 313 461... Ω 8.987 551 787... × 109 N·m²·C^−2 1.602 176 565(35) × 10^−19 C 9.274 009 68(20) × 10^−24 J·T^−1 7.748 091 7346(25) × 10^−5 S 12 906.403 7217(42) Ω 4.835 978 70(11) × 10^14 Hz·V−1 2.067 833 758(46) × 10^−15 Wb 5.050 783 53(11) × 10^−27 J·T^−1 25 812.807 4434(84) Ω 5.291 772 1092(17) × 10^−11 m 2.817 940 3267(27) × 10^−15 m 9.109 382 91(40) × 10^−31 kg 1.166 364(5) × 10^−5 GeV^−2 7.297 352 5698(24) × 10^−3 4.359 744 34(19) × 10^−18 J 1.672 621 777(74) × 10^−27 kg 3.636 947 5520(24) × 10^−4 m² s^−1 10 973 731.568 539(55) m^−1 6.652 458 734(13) × 10^−29 m² 0.2223(21) 1.660 538 921(73) × 10^−27 kg 6.022 141 29(27) × 10^23 mol^−1
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A mind so wrecked.
Posted 10-16-2008 at 07:12 AM by Bullet Magnet
I wish it was as simple as just simply laying out the facts and show people how obvious they are and how easy to understand they are. That's the policy that I have adopted throughout my entire career, through nine, ten books. It works for some people but I am afraid that it is becoming increasingly clear that it does not work for people whose childhood indoctrination (imprinting, one might almost call it) is sufficiently strong.
The most dramatic illustration of this I know is a man called Kurt Wise, who's an American geologist who did a degree at the university of Chicago, he then did a doctorate at Harvard in geology (under Stephen Gould, no less) and he then became aware that the geology he was learning was incompatible with the religion of his childhood, which was fundamentalist Christianity. And he dramatically described how he got a pair of scissors and a Bible, and he went right through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation cutting out every verse that would have to go if he took science seriously. And it says at the end that having gone through this exercise there was so little left of scripture that it just fell apart, there was nothing left. And he said "that night, in great sorrow, I tossed into the flames-" and you hope he's going to toss the Bible into the flames, but no: "-I tossed into the flames all my hopes and aspirations to be a scientist and a science teacher." He gave up science, and then he goes on to a sort of final peroration, where he says in this article, "if all the evidence in the universe demonstrated an old Earth, I would still be a young-Earth creationist, because that is what holy scripture tells me." Now, I find myself powerless against that, I find myself despairing against someone who can actually, after a Chicago-Harvard education in science of the best possible kind in the world can stand up and say "if all the evidence goes one way and scripture goes the other, I'm going to go with scripture." What chance have we got when the indoctrination, the imprinting of childhood, leaves a mind so wrecked as that? -Richard Dawkins at the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain's Conference on Political Islam, Sharia Law and Civil Society, October 14, 2008. ~ I must say, I agree whole heartedly with that sentiment and its implications. |
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