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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Miracles

The other day I was browsing Youtube, and eventually I got to that part of youtube. The part filled with stupidly addicting videos of useless machines, cats stuck in boxes, massive trash compactors, and the worst of the worst, perpetual motion machines. Overbalanced wheels, self filling funnels, magnetized turbines, the comments of these videos are filled with people claiming "scientists lie to us!", "Do your own experiments!". As soon as anyone mentions "thermodynamics", rage ensues from the pseudo-intellectuals; the people trying to be open minded but too stupid to realize that the basic principles of science are proven facts. The point of scientific laws is that they've already been proven so we can build on them, developing new theories instead of moving backward and trying to disprove something that you can't disprove. Those morons hide behind the  excuse that "we have to challenge ideas to move forward." Well they are right, but they misinterpreted. Scientists challenge new ideas. Ideas that haven't been scrutinized, that haven't stood the test of time, the point of challenging ideas is to see if they stand up to the scrutiny. The Laws of Thermodynamics have already withstood centuries of scrutiny. That's why they are scientific Laws. Scientists don't just tack on the "Law" title on to every hypothesis that sort of makes sense. Scientific laws are facts that simply cannot be disproven, no matter how hard you try.

To address the people that claim they've already disproven the Laws of Thermodynamics.

Magnets do NOT stay magnetized forever.

That's right, your self-spinning magnet wheel is not a perpetual motion machine. Those magnets will eventually run out of charge, because the energy it takes to work against the friction of the air and the axle has to come from somewhere. The energy in your magnet was put there in a factory. Remember in 2nd grade where you rubbed a paper clip on a magnet, and then the paper clip was temporarily magnetized? It's the same concept, but with electromagnets that use a lot of energy to magnetize those chunks of metal. Your magnets didn't magically appear on earth, they were created, and their charge artificially generated.

Speaking of magnets, fuck Juggalos. Seriously, they need to shut the fuck up.
Sure science can seem miraculous to the uneducated mind, but in the end, it's science, not miracles, and you're still an idiot.

Another thing that really pisses me off about people who argue against the validity of science is the "It's just a theory" argument. This argument is the one used mostly by christian fundamentalists and creationists, especially when it comes to the Theory of Evolution. Let me make something perfectly clear. Your concept of a "theory" is not the same thing as a scientific theories. A scientific theory isn't "just an idea", it's an idea supported by heaps of evidence and scrutinized countless times. It's still not a perfect theory, but that's the point of science. Right now, it makes the most sense with the evidence that we have, and it's probably going to stay that way. As we discover and learn more about the world, we will iron out the kinks in the theory and we will have a solid understanding of the origin of life. Science is fluid, constantly changing as we learn about the world around us. The more we learn, the more accurate our theories will be. If another theory arises that makes more sense than evolution and has more evidence and fewer flaws, then evolution will be replaced as the leading theory of biological development. This is however, extremely unlikely. And no, creationism does not make more sense than evolution. I'll go more in depth on the evolution versus creationism argument some other day, I'm pretty much done ranting for now.

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