tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post5857141041051878281..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: "The Book that Saves the World": When is a book legitimate science?Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-92008368544408129712015-10-20T02:38:39.568-04:002015-10-20T02:38:39.568-04:00Interesting that you should mention both Jeremy Gr...Interesting that you should mention both Jeremy Griffith and Harun Yahya at the same time, as I've been reading both them of frequently recently. Perhaps this is a sign from the universe that I should stop reading both of them.<br /><br />A funny observation: Harun Yahya is purportedly Muslim, but believes in idealism (everything is within consciousness, matter is not real), and seems 'out to get' Darwin, he says that the the verse within the Qur'an: be ye despised, apes and pigs (something like that), is a reference to belief in evolution and how life came from matter (our ancestors being apes).<br /><br />Jeremy Griffith is a materialist (matter is real), and believes that the way matter organizes itself is in fact 'God itself' (order, which is seen or inferred in matter), and frequently references Darwin in his latest book (2015). Moreover he frequently references the (probably commonly accepted) idea that our ancestors were apes.<br /><br />Yet both figures are accused of leading cults, and are given virtually no support outside of their own circles, which means they have no influence, because their narrative is only believed inside of themselves, and their only supporters are, yeah.<br /><br />Meaning that their narrative of how the world works (Griffith: scientists don't want to confront this truth, injustice, no one takes this liberating-concise-awesome-explosive-revelation-truth seriously, etc.), is not actually how the world works, but within their circle.<br /><br />Anyways, just some ramblings.<br /><br />JamesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14419997442983616230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-26418389067527227202014-10-08T10:18:52.845-04:002014-10-08T10:18:52.845-04:00Should I feel jealous for not getting such... inte...Should I feel jealous for not getting such... interesting? ... books sent to my office?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068601494828074316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-17502550577599335012014-10-07T15:17:34.020-04:002014-10-07T15:17:34.020-04:00Well I guess all human activities have their self-...Well I guess all human activities have their self-interested aspects. ENCODE is just one of many mega-scale projects that has lots of funding and naturally must generate lots of product and lots of positive assertions of its findings to go along with the results themselves. That's the current way science does business. One can criticize, and we do, but one can't blame people for doing what they must to in their own interests.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.com