tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129504587589508868.post-45776705617168400792008-02-07T16:29:00.000-04:002008-02-07T16:29:00.000-04:00This is from a different context, but I just saw it today, and I think it does a very good job of illustrating my point of why more scientific knowledge won't do anything to convince anyone that their religion may be wrong.<BR/><BR/>From the What's New list, by physicist Robert Park:<BR/><BR/>"<BR/>I was invited this week to join a panel of "experts" on "It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle," an Emmy Award-winning, viewer-interactive news talk show on the Comcast Cable Television Network. The subject was "Are we alone?" The object was to increase advertising revenue by pandering to a public that lives in a mythical world. I was the token scientist; Ted Schick, a philosophy professor from Muhlenberg, was the other rationalist. Then there was a delusional M.D. who saw lights she couldn't explain over Phoenix, and the delusional head of the Paradigm Research Group, devoted to exposing the imaginary UFO cover-up. But the "experts" hardly mattered; the stars were the callers, with tales of strange lights and space aliens who can walk through walls. Is that really possible? "Of course it is," a caller explained, "quantum physics has proven it." The aliens, another cautioned, may be in another dimension - "there are eleven you know." What have we done? <BR/>"<BR/><BR/>From:<BR/>http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN08/wn020108.html<BR/><BR/>About:<BR/>http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/bob.htmlYaronnoreply@blogger.com