Modern Western science puts the Sun at the centre of the solar system. But other points of view are not necessarily wrong or primitive. Examine the Earth-centred solar system models of other cultures.
Seriously, I am not making this up. Follow the above link and behold the fruits of relativism, self-hatred, the inability to discern race from culture, and knee-jerk Western Civilization bashing.
Ptolemy was not a primitive thinker, but he was certainly wrong. Anyone today who holds a geocentric view of the solar system is a crank a la the flat earth society. However, the development of the scientific method has made it possible to correct errors and gain knowledge. By comparison many cultures and societies are primitive. To deny this obvious truth is to doom such people to a short, brutish life.
Crossposted at The Dougout
The heliocentric solar system is highly offensive to Muslims, because the Koran states that the sun travels in a semicircle across the flat earth. The Canadians are just doing what they are so good at - grovelling in abject dhimmitude.
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So, when are the Canadians going to find the 'truth' in the Easter Bunny?
ReplyDeleteThe truth is out there! It's a conspiracy, I tell ya' A conspiracy!
Grant Jones,
ReplyDeleteI wonder when the left will start allowing creationism to be taught in public schools again? I'm mean if they are going to do this in the name of diversity and tolerance, they will have a hard time not doing so, and being logically consistent at the same time. Of course creationism is not science, but neither is the geocentric view that the sun circles the Earth.
The OSC creates traveling exhibitions that other museums can rent @120,000 for 3 months. In 2000-2004 the "Truth" exhibit was, at various times, on display at the Louisville Science Center, Minnetrista Cultural Center (Indiana), and Liberty Science Center (NJ). The display is for sale and has been warehoused since 2004.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe somebody made this and actually found US Science Centre clients.
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/rentals/truth/booking.asp
I wonder how long it will be until the Canucks start hauling those who insist "but it moves" before their Star Chambers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info, everyone.
From http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/tls_selections/religion/article2305888.ece
ReplyDelete"One finds in Islamic countries not only religious opposition to specific scientific theories, as occasionally in the West, but a widespread religious hostility to science itself. My late friend, the distinguished Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam, tried to convince the rulers of the oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf to invest in scientific education and research, but he found that though they were enthusiastic about technology, they felt that pure science presented too great a challenge to faith. In 1981, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt called for an end to scientific education. In the areas of science I know best, though there are talented scientists of Muslim origin working productively in the West, for forty years I have not seen a single paper by a physicist or astronomer working in a Muslim country that was worth reading. This is despite the fact that in the ninth century, when science barely existed in Europe, the greatest centre of scientific research in the world was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God’s hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries."
Huh? Is it April fools\' day?!
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