Guess God’s Weight, Win an iPod
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It’s a very polarizing concept – religion and science. You can twist and warp facts as much as you want to try and find a middle ground (see: Intelligent Design), but at the end of the day, when you are alone with your thoughts and no is around to cite white papers or Biblical passages, you probably have a preferred camp.
Every now and then, someone will ask me what I believe. I never know what to say. I like my world measurable, so I guess that puts me somewhere between “rationalist”, “realist”, and “logicist”. Naturally, science seems to offer me the best explanation of things and gives me the greater peace of mind.
Plus we get to have spaceships and iPhones.
Dude, Where’s My Null Hypothesis?
WWJD?
The indisputable evidence box was a conceptual mind-exercise I came up with a while back to test one’s ability to maintain justifiable skepticism. It’s like a pregnancy test for logic, except you don’t have to pee on anything.
In a nutshell, the test is to imagine a set of hypothetical evidence that is so overwhelmingly AGAINST your own belief system that you’d have no choice but to accept that you are undeniably wrong. The question is then: presented with this indisputable evidence box, would you abandon your beliefs?
I like this exercise because it’s naturally polarizing. For those with a strong scientific background, it’s a layup; the scientific method flourishes in this sort of situation where new evidence presents itself against a commonly accepted theory. But when the user’s response is fuddled, ambiguous, or even hostile toward the test, it’s quite clear that skepticism and rationality are not frequently-used tools in their personal bag of tricks.
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Google Work-At-Home Kit? Make Money Posting Links From Home? Get Paid For Doing Absolutely Nothing?
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In my Internet Complaint Box post, I briefly touched on the barrel-bottom forum over at Google, where any and all forms of complaint and discussion seem to rise, as if bubbling from the soupy runoff of a newbie processing plant. By far, the most common discussion is the “Internet scam”.
A certain degree of triage is performed by myself and several other “power-user” contributors. Unfortunately, most of these episodes are too far along to offer any satisfactory resolve – credit cards have been handed over, repeat charges are appearing on bank statements, and representative phone numbers aren’t working.
Once again, these scams have absolutely nothing to do with Google. But since “Google” is synonymous with “Internet”, people seem to think Google should know that they’ve been scammed on “their” Internet. It really is a serious problem, and I truly feel remorse for most of these unfortunate victims.
And then there are the smarter folks.
BREAKING NEWS: The Internet Causes Autism!
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As the above graph clearly shows, the number of reported autism cases in the United States directly correlates with the size of the Internet.
Holy crap! The Internet is causing autism!
How can those rich brainiacs at Google and Microsoft sleep at night, knowing their technology is somehow polluting our children’s bodies with dangerous toxins? At this rate, by 2068 every single person in America will have autism! This is an outrage!
Why haven’t the major news networks caught on to this? Obviously they are in bed with the big pharmaceutical companies who want this information suppressed from the public eye!
Email your relatives and spread the word! Don’t use the Internet!
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