Anti-science goons need to go back to their caves

2/21/2008 | 2:13 PM | Evolved Rationalist

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so. The trick is to want the right things, then science will provide you with the most effective methods of achieving them. [Richard Dawkins]

I received an e-mail from an anti-science nutter who was rambling on and on about how I'm a science worshiper, how science is evil and is killing the human race, something about how scientists gave us the BOMB, how science is the real threat to humanity, the BOMB, and the BOMB again.

(Yes, he capitalized the word BOMB in his e-mail.)

Now, what the fuck is a science worshiper? I don't pray to science, and people don't have to worship science to reap its' benefits. We are very well aware of the fact that science is a human invention, thank you very much.

The most hypocritical thing about anti-science lunatics is that they use their computers and the Internet to rant against the very body of knowledge that gave them these comforts in the first place. The world would be much better off is these goons practice what they preach and live in caves, or reject modern medicine and remove themselves from the gene pool. It is just too bad that most of them are just filthy, lying, deluded, hypocritical fucktards.

*Since some dipshits have claimed that I'm a Nazi for using the term 'gene pool', I'd like to tell those dipshits that the term 'gene pool' a term from population genetics. Anyone who screams about Nazis or Hitler after this seriously needs a brick rammed up his/her throat.*

Remember how rabid Bible-thumping theistards and general anti-science freaks claim that science is killing the human race? If so, why has the human life expectancy and population growth increased tremendously after the advent of modern science? Back when there was the demon theory of disease instead of the germ theory, people were dying in epidemics which would be unthinkable nowadays. We are living in the Age of Science, and generally, humans are as prosperous as ever. The places where the benefits of science have not been fully utilized or available to the population are the places where death rates, infant mortality, hunger and starvation are higher than the rest of the world. This intellectually challenged argument fails as there is simply no evidence that science is killing the human race.

The fact is, science is quite literally the savior of the human race. As I've mentioned previously, science has led us to the edges of what not too long ago was considered unachievable miracles. Who, just a century ago, would have ever conceived of the Internet? Anti-science goons seem to forget that less than a century ago, people were actually dying of polio all over the place. The reason anti-science kooks can rant about the so-called 'evils' of science is because they have forgotten, or are ignorant, of how life really was before modern science. They conveniently choose to forget or ignore history in order to promote their foolish biases. Science has overcome the odds which include suppression of ideas by anti-scientific morons and scientists being burnt at the stake by religious fanatics, because it works. How many religious people nowadays solely rely on faith healing? I dare say not many, and this is because, deep down, they know that science works and religion doesn't. Actions speak louder than words.

Oh, and scientists gave us the bomb, you say? The fallacy of this line of reasoning is clear to everyone except those rabid anti-science dogs. Scientists came up with the technology to build weapons, but were nations bombed ‘in the name of science’ (as opposed to the countless wars fought in the name of religion or god)? Was it the scientists, in an attempt to convert other people to scientific thought, the ones who dropped the bombs? I don't think so. Science itself does not lead to bombings and wars - it is the fault of the people who use scientific technology for their own personal goals.

A message to anti-science kooks: If you are against science, go back to your cave and live your anti-scientific life there. Don't drag the whole world back into the Dark Ages with you.

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