Oooohman, do we. Although I'd also throw in a bit of laziness as well. I don't buy the "religion vs. science" argument that some people bring out. Science and religion have had a tenuous relationship before well Bush took office, well before there was the USA, well before...well, you get the idea. Yet, science has progressed. Why? Because people were willing and interested in learning, even in the face of prosecution.
Now? We're too damned lazy and ignorant to want to learn. Thank you internet and television!
Wow, I get bitter before I've had my coffee. Time to go teach chemistry.
dude, Bush wants to put people on Mars yet he's religous and conservative. As far as other things like stem-cell research and abortion, yeah, those topics involve science and they are controversial, but I don't think approval of those things would even be considered "scientific progress," but rather social policy.
Bush wants to put people on Mars yet he's religous and conservative.
And thats why Bush has cut NASA funding by ludicrous amounts, and NASA had to cancel things like the deep space probe to find enhabitable planets similar to our own.
Bush has said a lot of things, and the majority of them have been a huge letdown.
NASA should be using what chalk dust worth of income they have left to develop a new shuttle, and not keep their current defunct dingy.
And I agree with the Opener. The religious nuts have stopped a lot of successful breakthroughs without looking at the whole picture. Libertarians are needed in office.
I don't think people disaprove of scientific progress, but I think everyone is living a very 'what's this going to do for me' generation right now. If technology is going to make food stay hotter longer or fry faster or allow more tvs in more places or let people download porn faster than they can watch it then people are going to want it. If science is going to boldly go where no man has gone before... whats out there for me? why are you going there? Are you making a reality show about it
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Oooohman, do we. Although I'd also throw in a bit of laziness as well. I don't buy the "religion vs. science" argument that some people bring out. Science and religion have had a tenuous relationship before well Bush took office, well before there was the USA, well before...well, you get the idea. Yet, science has progressed. Why? Because people were willing and interested in learning, even in the face of prosecution.
Now? We're too damned lazy and ignorant to want to learn. Thank you internet and television!
Wow, I get bitter before I've had my coffee. Time to go teach chemistry.
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And thats why Bush has cut NASA funding by ludicrous amounts, and NASA had to cancel things like the deep space probe to find enhabitable planets similar to our own.
Bush has said a lot of things, and the majority of them have been a huge letdown.
NASA should be using what chalk dust worth of income they have left to develop a new shuttle, and not keep their current defunct dingy.
And I agree with the Opener. The religious nuts have stopped a lot of successful breakthroughs without looking at the whole picture. Libertarians are needed in office.
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Oh, and people faking stem cell results and getting 'bad' science smeared all over CNN.
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