Simone Weil's weird take on religious belief

Simone Weil's weird take on religious belief May 3, 2019 23:47:47 GMT

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Post by general313 on May 3, 2019 23:47:47 GMT

May 3, 2019 21:11:25 GMT Arlon10 said:

May 3, 2019 14:13:23 GMT general313 said:

You're the one that doesn't understand the nature of the relativistic correction necessary to make GPS work accurately and state that there's no experimental evidence for General Relativity and you suggest that I'm the one that's ignorant of science? Just what kind of drugs do they have on Planet Arlon?

It's also pretty hysterical that apparently you think the government is responsible for the high divorce rate. Would that include Elizabeth Taylor? And destroying marriage! I haven't noticed any damage to my marriage nor those of my friends and family that are married. I guess the government hasn't been able to reach me or my family and friends.

   If you still can't see that both political parties are wrong. If you still can't see that they are dominated by people who are too ignorant of religion and science to manage either one, there is only one explanation, you are too ignorant of religion and science yourself to manage anything, even those things that government ought to manage.

   I never said there is no evidence for relativity. I only point out that the people who believe in it that I have met don't have any evidence, which you have just confirmed.

   So it's agreed then, you are not a scientist yourself, you just follow the herd on science. Would you care to elaborate how that won't go terribly wrong one day? That is of course if you don't see it going wrong already.

I'll repeat what I said in a reply to you (replying to Goz about not being a scientist): It's like saying that one can't understand sports or politics unless one is an athlete or politician.

Your suggestion that there's no middle ground between being a scientist and being completely ignorant of science is utterly ridiculous. I don't need to have personally conducted experiments in relativity to understand the many experiments that have been done to confirm the theory. I have been an avid reader of science journals for most of my life and have read many articles and books concerning Einstein's theories, and understand quite well why classical physics was supplanted by relativity. You on the other hand have repeatedly displayed an ignorance of science by making such claims that it is questionable that heart transplants have been performed or that GPS systems don't need to take relativity into account to achieve the accuracy that they do.