Attack (or defend) the science

**The Black Ship** · 09-06-2005, 02:25

Originally Posted by AdrianII

Why don't you join in the effort to find out? I am an ageing stamp collector, but you, The Black Ship, supposing that you are as young and smart as you sound, can try your hand at physics and make it your business to explore and investigate such fundamental questions.

Funny you mention it, I try my hand at physics every day. I work in the Medical Physics department at a Cancer center. When I enter the desired monitor unit into the linear accelerator I expect a certain outcome. If that outcome doesn't occur, I attempt to find out why.

Doesn't explain how something came from nothing though...the accelerator won't run without power, try as I might, but I can explain certain actions, causes, and can investigate. But that doesn't get science off the hook for my original question.

Where did the power come from at the beginning of time? Of course, if you believe it was provided by God, then I'd also have to ask "was there a time before God? And if so, how did he (something) come from nothing"?

**bmolsson** · 09-06-2005, 03:30

Religion and science is not in contradiction to each other. Science is a tool, which is used to try to explain phenomena and to use as a basis for development and evolution of our collected knowledge.
The largest problem with modern science is that it is often used for the good of individuals. Scientific work has many times taken the shape religion has and is nothing more than a political tool to push a specific agenda forward. More direction is needed.....

**Papewaio** · 09-06-2005, 03:32

Actually more politicians with a science degree is needed rather then the 1% or so who do...

**ICantSpellDawg** · 09-06-2005, 04:06

does anyone know how many politicians are doctors (medical or other scientific fields) and where they reside in the political spectrum?

**Aenlic** · 09-06-2005, 07:44

Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff

does anyone know how many politicians are doctors (medical or other scientific fields) and where they reside in the political spectrum?

Well, I looked; because I'm curious as well. Sadly, I can't find any site which had the information in easy to get form. I did find that 3 members of the current U.S. Congress are medical doctors, all three Republicans. I don't have the patience to go through the biographies of each of the other 432 members to determine their educational background. I'd be willing to bet that most of them are lawyers, though.

**Paul Peru** · 09-06-2005, 17:13

My theses on science:
1. Science sux!
2. Science is just a lot of guys (and a few gals) in white, massaging their egos and publishing stuff that they hope noone understands, because it's certainly of no use to man nor beast.
3. Science is in the pocket of Big Business Capital Corporation Multinational Money-men. Science these days doesn't care about gaining understanding of the world or improving quality of life for common people, just ways to squeeze money out of the many and dump it on the few.

There has recently been a major breakthrough in Norwegian stamps: You can now buy a stamp that says something like "normal letter type thing, priority" Instead of "6 kroner", so next year when you finally want to snail-mail a few words to your disconnected friend, it's still valid!