RePUKES who don't believe in evolution are like Oprah watchers who believe in horoscopes

[Proud2BAmurkin]

It's no wonder they can't process facts well enough to know not to vote for an idiot like Bush. Brain dead anti-science zombies.

[sakabatou]

1. It's also a pain when they use science to explain psuedo-science

>_<

[Proud2BAmurkin]

3. My favorite is "glass of water with ice in it" to deny global warming

Even Oxy Rush uses that one and his idiot listeners lap it up. Comical idiots

[WindRavenX]

9. what's sad is that a lot of DUers are guilty of this as well

see:

1)astrology

2)homeopathic "medicine"

3)ID

etc.

[helderheid]

2. .

:eyes:

[hlthe2b]

4. I suspect an awful lot of Oprah watchers who

believe in horoscopes, also believe in evolution... I think many who read horoscopes do so casually, for fun. I certainly do not equate them with REPUKES who don't believe in science. I read them for fun and my entire life is vested in science and medicine. I almost never watch Oprah because I'm too damned busy, but geez...

Even those who do believe fully in astrology are in good company, science and math-wise. You do remember it was the ancient Egyptians who developed geometry, built structures that we can not explain to this day, and performed medical/surgical procedures that baffle us today, yet astrological study undoubtedly is traced to them as well.

[kestrel91316]

10. I occasionally used to do a horoscope for various people.

It's fine to dabble if you just want to use it as a tool for insight into yourself. Sort of like religious beliefs, INSIDE YOUR HEAD.

I would NEVER want to base any government policies on horoscopes, however!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JEEZ! Or force it to be taught in schools as equivalent to astronomy...................

[OxQQme]

13. Actually, hlthe2b,

it wasn't the Egyptian civilization that were the first to have those skills.
They were a couple of thousand years after the Sumerians who have left evidence of
their knowledge of those esteemed attributes. Including a knowledge of the movement of
the 'heavens'.
The big question is how could they possibly have known about earth's polar precession and
it's axis 'pointing' at different star formations for 2600 years and passing into another 'age'.
And, the names of those groupings that were in use 7 thousand years ago are still the names
in use today, ie: Libra, Capricorn, Gemini, etc.
May I refer you to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius
Then ponder that knowledge and that it was known and inscribed several millenium ago.

<snip>
Overview

"The Age of Freedom, Peace, and the Water Bearer"

Orb of Influence

Ages are believed by some to affect mankind. For Aquarius (also called "the Water bearer"), it is reported we have already been feeling influences - titled Orb of influence (the last ten degrees backwards of the Age of Pisces) - in the accelerated individual, social, cultural, scientific and technological development and globalization through the 20th century. This view is consistent with the popular notion of the New Age movement that regards current times as the "dawning of the Aquarian Age".

On the other hand, the Aquarian Age is thought to bring with it an era of universal brotherhood rooted in reason where it will be possible to solve social problems in a manner equitable to all and with greater opportunity for intellectual and spiritual improvement, since Aquarius is an airy, scientific, and intellectual sign and its ruler planet, Uranus, is associated with intuition (knowledge above reason) and direct perceptions of the heart; and on the mundane level it rules electricity and technology. It is generally described by astrologers that in the Age of Aquarius there will be a blending of religion and science to such a degree that a religious science and a scientific religion will be formed.

Eastern astrology associates the Age of Pisces with the yin; i.e., spirituality and intuition. Aquarius, on the other hand represents the yang, with its emphasis on rationality and high technology.

[hlthe2b]

14. yes of course.. the Sumerians preceded the Egyptians..

I stand corrected..

[mmonk]

5. Not really.

Oprah horoscope followers don't try to have it forcibly taught in science classes.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. you mean horoscopes aren't accurate? damn.

A thinking public would put a stake in the hearts of the neocons and PNACers. Can't have that.

[KittyWampus]

7. I'd say it's the Science Fundies & Psuedo-Skeptics are just like narrow minded bigots

on the right.

But I generally don't post things like that especially in General Discussion.

[WindRavenX]

12. ...says the person who believes in ID

:eyes:

[kestrel91316]

8. I read Carl Sagan's book The Demon-Haunted World a while

back and it made me want to weep.

We are voluntarily taking this country back to the Dark Ages with the magical thinking we have swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

[WindRavenX]

11. That book literally changed my life

I read it every year. It should be required reading for everyone.

[kestrel91316]

15. I wish Sagan were still alive. He would be raising hell in America,

with all our backsliding into anti-intellectualism!!