Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I didn't think the religious right had much of a problem with the big bang. Or maybe that's just the Catholic church that's kosher with the big bang.
Yeah, the Catholic Church is OK with it. But many ID people disagree with the big bang too. In fact, many conflate the two (which is very bizarre to me).
I didn't think the religious right had much of a problem with the big bang.
I'm not sure that I understand. How could there be a Big Bang if the world is only a few thousand years old, and people came along the same week as the cosmos?
Last week I told someone I felt that this administration was the most corrupt since Nixon. I'm starting to think I was being generous.
I used to think that. But for the last few years I've felt that the current administration is much more corrupt than Nixon.
It is also the most radical administration in our history, in terms of their views on the limits on presidential power.
I didn't think the religious right had much of a problem with the big bang. Or maybe that's just the Catholic church that's kosher with the big bang.
Depends on how far right. It's kind of against the view of the earth being 5000 or so years old, etc.
ETA; Well, this was too late.
Last week I told someone I felt that this administration was the most corrupt since Nixon.
I generally go with "since U.S. Grant," m'self. Grant's administration had that by the wealthy, for the wealthy feel to it.
NASA's IG is under investigation,
Wot's IG?
It's possible that the big bang is not really a concern of the administration, but this guy Deutsch-- whose decision-making skills can be fairly questioned at this point-- went too far in doing what he thinks would please the Executive.
Wot's IG?
That would be NASA's Iggy Pop clone.
Or possibly the Inspector General.
I like to compare them to the Warren Gamaliel Harding administration, because I can then reference H.L. Mencken's firebreathing essays about Harding's corruption and incompetence.
But many ID people disagree with the big bang too.
Maybe they go for M-theory cosmology with the idea of colliding four dimensional membranes in eleven dimensional space. (I apologize if I just butchered the actual theory, but I don't know much about it)
I think the ID people have wisely concentrated their efforts on proving all of biology wrong, before taking the larger step of proving all of geology and cosmology wrong.
It's important to take these things one step at a time, and not bite off more than you can chew.