{"id":1940,"date":"2007-09-11T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/science-allows-for-its-demise\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T21:29:42","slug":"science-allows-for-its-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/science-allows-for-its-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Science allows for it’s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"

This ‘news’ about generating energy from burning saltwater is ridicolous bullshit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here we are, using those internets, which are run on computers (just ask Homer) and other products of science to mock it’s very contents and basic laws.<\/p>\n

Of course it is an extreme example. But the same principle seem to apply frequently: Those creationists should be consequent and stop using the products and merits of science. All of them. If they don’t like what science has discovered.<\/p>\n

Two hundred years ago when people even in the more developed countries were dying left right and center on odd diseases and epidemics there simply was no question: Science was good. Now, that we are reaping all those benefits and so many of us have these careless existences some people think, that the current state of society and wellfare would just be ‘normal’, or god given.Well, it is not. The default is much much more grim. Over the last four hundred years people worked really really hard to make all this possible. It was not easy to harvest all this knowledge our econimies and factories run on. All these efforts were based on the absence of stupity. Now it seems as if some people start to take stupid stuff serious. Since it seems that they can afford to. People living in Rome two thousand years ago were in a similar position. Why would they care? Of all Shakespear plays I liked Coriolanus<\/a> the least. Now that’s starting to change. Somehow I think that it’s message is not that off after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This ‘news’ about generating energy from burning saltwater is ridicolous bullshit. Here we are, using those internets, which are run on computers (just ask Homer) and other products of science to mock it’s very contents and basic laws. Of course it is an extreme example. But the same principle seem to apply frequently: Those creationists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,18,19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBurning Saltwater: When Science Fiction Meets Facebook Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Saltwater combustion? Sure, why not. Let's power rockets with unicorn tears next. 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