Mal-ark-ey

This was totally like this when we got here, honest! (via the guys-with-no-vested-interest's site)

People sometimes want things to be true so badly that they’ll latch onto the first fraud that comes around offering them a shred of purported evidence, and will stay latched even when the evidence is later proven fraudulent. Sometimes this happens to detriment of only the person being snookered; sometimes this happens to the greater detriment of humankind as a whole, and its ability to get past the fallacious beliefs, keeping it from ever throwing their lot in with reality proper. With religious iconography, usually (and most unfortunately) the latter is almost always the case.

Fox News recently reported on a news conference held by Turkish Christian Evangelicals from a group called Noah’s Ark Ministries International (so you know they have no dog in THIS race!), wherein they claim that their scientists have discovered with “99.9% certainty” the final resting place of the mythical Ark that Noah used to survive the mythical global flood. Sorry, I should clarify: the mythical Noah. And yes, that means THIS ark must not be real. Nobody respects Wyatt. Le sigh.
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Can you trust science?

Yes, the teaser picture is entirely manipluative. That’s what makes it so funny. It’s probably the perfect answer to the bleatings of those on the wrong end of reality that “science has an agenda of its own” or that a person “has faith” in science the same way that a religious person “has faith” in their religion.

Hat tip, of course, to The Thinking Atheist, whose videos are always pure quality.

Can you trust science?

Tyson on alien life

Gupta was maybe a bit more dismissive of the concept than I liked at first, and nobody really defended Hawking properly in my estimation, but Neil DeGrasse Tyson certainly set the record straight. This was an excellent explanation of the facts regarding the recent “shocking” revelation that Stephen Hawking believes any alien life capable of crossing the expanse of space is going to be so far ahead of us technology-wise that, should they be malevolent, we’re basically doomed.

Tyson on alien life