In his post, Slapping Interstellarmachine around, Zerowing21 demolishes quite clearly and thoroughly the fallacy of the idea that everything must be taken on faith that cannot be observed directly. He also does a decent job of demonstrating that all ideas and beliefs are not equally valid. These are tactics the creationist and ID crowd use all the time in their specious ‘arguments’ for their ideas. All ideas are not all equally valid. Some ideas are highly unlikely and shouldn’t get as much weight as those with good evidential support. Some ideas are just stupid. Anyway, he says it much better than I do.
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Science is so very cool…
Check out this video:
It shows a water droplet falling onto a carbon nanotubule surface that is perfectly hydrophobic (water resistant), so much so that the surface tension of the droplet is enough to keep it in a tight ball and allow it to bounce! I especially like the sequence showing two droplets colliding and merging…
Another Symphony of Science production
I love these songs, done with the Autotune software and emphasizing science and reason using the voices of some of the brightest lights in science. This one, ‘The Poetry of Reality’, is my second favorite, after the original one done with Carl Sagan called ‘Glorious Dawn’.
You can find many more videos at the Symphony of Science website.