"Science never proves anything."

...That is, according to one of the mothers featured in the documentary Jesus Camp, which I started watching last night. Jesus Camp is possibly the creepiest movie I've ever seen. And not just because it starts with ten minutes of people praying in tongues (I'm sure the experience of speaking in tongues is amazing and profound, but from an outsider's perspective it's just really alarming, especially when it's a ten year old doing it). It's really later, when a little boy is being homeschooled on the "myths" of global warming and evolution, that one's skin begins to crawl.

I just really like science, is the thing. The whole concept that we are constantly learning about the universe and improving upon our knowledge, that no idea is infallible. For example! According to the BBC, Upright walking 'began in trees': "'The logical conclusion from the environmental, fossil, and experimental evidence is that upright, straight-legged walking originally evolved as an adaptation to tree-dwelling.'"

We were wrong about walking upright! We learned how to do it for totally different reasons! Science.

Labels: moving pictures, science nonfiction

posted by Liz  # 1:17 PM

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My all-time favorite fundy term is "Creation Science". They get all bent out of shape when you tell them that just because they call it science doesn't make it science. Fossils are a trick of the debble!!

It's really hard to take these people seriously, especially when they insist that the universe is only around 10,000 years old.
# posted by  Murphy J Stillwater : June 1, 2007 1:29:00 PM PDT 

There's an old saying in academia: "Any field that has to put 'science' in its name isn't one." That always gets a laugh from physicists; the computer scientists, not so much.
# posted by  Dadster : June 1, 2007 2:55:00 PM PDT 

The best part of that movie was when they prayed over their laptop to get the devil out of PowerPoint.

Silly fundamentalists! The devil IS PowerPoint!
# posted by  that one guy you know : June 5, 2007 6:46:00 PM PDT 

OMG. Powerpoint. It so so is.
# posted by  Liz : June 6, 2007 12:06:00 PM PDT 

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