A final theory of everything - wow! I can't wait to hear the one for Taylor Hicks. I bet even Einstein couldn't figure that one out!

Also, you've really gotta admire Simon Baron-Cohen. What with the success of "Borat", where does he find the time to work with all those autistic kids?

I agree; it wasn't intentionally funny, but was, and is pathetic. I think the "thinkers" need to take that extra time to re- think this. These so-called intellectuals sit in their ivory towers and project their self-proclaimed brilliance on the whole world like they ARE God. That's border-line retarded!

We're gonna live a lot longer? Oh boy! I'm gonna spend the extra years eating chalupas (from Taco Bell, not from Leo).

>Simon Baron Cohen

Borat, is that you?

>"There is a remarkably good fit between the autistic mind and the digital age," he said.

Well, I guess he reads Kos and DU.

>"We will be able to regenerate parts of the brain that have been worn out.

But will brain transplant be possible for the liberals, who've been sadly born without?

I clicked on the link.
That's interesting. I held those optomistic beliefs myself. When I was twelve. Sadly, though, the very changes they're talking about that are supposed to bring us together are the very things that outrage the Muslim fanatics.
Western media...it's supply and demand Mahmood. I'm not wanting to shove Paris Hilton down their throat (although she'd probably fit).

Can someone remind me where I was going with this?

I meant "optimistic." I hate to misspell! Puts me in a murderous rage, it does! Not like Rumsfeld or anything. More like an angry badger.

Sounds like they were watching Stallone's movie Demolition Man when they came up with these theories.

Mr. Spacemonkey, is there any way you IMAO types could get the trackbacks working again so I don't feel tempted to put links in the comments section?

Scientists talking about how science will beat religion down & make life better. Someone ought to remind them that science allows for better, more efficient warfare, and that the faith in unknown or unseen scientific principals is a just like religion.

I refer you all to a speech by Michael Chriton:

www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/speeches_quote04.html

It also sheds light on the global warming hype that is soooo prevalent among the scientific community & the liberal moonbats who follow along like li'l sheep.

I kind of skimmed the whole thing, but was amused nonetheless. To believe we'll have final theories about anything is ballsy in the extreme,esepcially when we can't even figure out the theory of Algore's appeal.

You must, however, take seriously a scientist named Chalupa.

If I thought anybody READ the Guardian, I'd tell the guys to do a parody entitled "No Israel and an end to Jews: how Iranians see the future."

The problem is the Guardian is like the Washington Post. It gets cited all over the frick'n place, but nobody actually buys and READS the lame piece of crap.

So nobody but you guys would get the gag. Oh, well...

BTW, that speech is kinda long, but well worth the read. It's funny, too.

Here's the address again:

www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/speeches_quote04.html

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

I might say you're a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll wake up
and try to not be dumb.

Just joshin' ya, Pete. It wasn't all directed at you; I just can't stand that song. It sounds like an anthem for socialism.

Imagine is The Communist Manifesto set to music. Also, if science gets rid of religion it will just be replacing one religion with another.

The answer these scientists seek is 42. Duh.

have you seen the name of the guy ? Alok Jha? Who can be so stupid to tust a man with this name writing an article about the future according to Borat ? I'd rather prefer to live in the glorious past of the Stone Age.

Wasn't religion supposed to go the way of the dinosaurs during Plato's lifetime. "My word will not return void." Too bad these clowns forget history, now they are doomed to repeat the same dumb mistakes, especially about the disappearence of faith.

I declare a jihad against thinkers! No more thinking. Ever.

I think I agree with K T.

"No more thinking. Ever."

Well, it DOES hurt.

And I'm Santa Claus and Frank is the tooth fairy

Daniel Denett: The spread of information through the internet and mobile phones will "gently, irresistibly, undermine the mindsets requisite for religious fanaticism and intolerance"

GBarto: The spread of information through the internet and mobile phones will assure that you can check out Britney Spears crotch shots and the speeches of Osama Bin Laden 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, sealing in perpetuity the decadence of the West and the intolerance of the Mohammedans.

And they'll still probably skimp on the IMAO podcasts that are our only solace in this cold and cruel world.

Spacemonkey, It does hurt. Makes you want to swear off thinking and become autistic. It hurts because writers like that can stack it so high and fast it's next to impossible to knock down without getting some on you. These other posts are a pretty decent antidote though - Thanks!

What if-after all the science is done, the theories are actually put into mathematical equations, the whole universe is defined to our liking-what if it proves that there is an 'agent' responsible for the creation? I mean, Einstein himself was convinced there is a God ("I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details"), albeit undefineable by our limited thinking capacity.

Wouldn't that just be the just dessert for these scientists? To find God (if He actually exists...I'll straddle the fence here) sitting right there in their equations? Just smilin'.....

It’s called speculating wildly on things about which you know nothing.

Lets face it; everybody loves to do it. Intellectuals even more so. It’s called speaking with authority in a subject area where you have no expertise and probably have invested little time to getting your head around the subject in question. Not only are we asking for familiarity with completely different intellectual paradigms, we are asking for bold predictions about the future. Does a physicist or psychologist know his history. How many Biologists are really good at comparative theology. I’m completely appalled that art historians weren’t asked about the aging process.

I love this quote: “Biologist Richard Dawkins said that physicists would give religion another problem: a theory of everything that would complete Albert Einstein's dream of unifying the fundamental laws of physics. " So what does a biologist know about Grand Unified Theories of physics. By the way a Grand Unified Theory is not a theory of everything but would tie all the physical forces together (electromagnetic, strong, weak, gravity). So what bearing does this have on religion; little to none. It doesn’t even approach questions of how things got that way.

I see it continues to be fashionable to blame religious intolerance for everything, as if that were at the root of all problems. So the great wars of the first half of the 20th century were caused by religion? I don’t think so. I might suggest something like the convulsive rise of the modern nation state. Since the French revolution there has been an ongoing debate about how best a modern state should govern itself and the structure of modern society. Sure ugly ancient prejudices played their parts in the great wars, but that is the ugly face of war not necessarily its root.

I am also wary when intellectuals play the class card, pretending that some day they will get the great unwashed to see things their way. As if history was actually lined up with good doer’s on one side and the superstitious troglodytes always on the other side holding back progress. Give me a break! If you see your place in history this way, you need to sit in on George Bushes Sunday school class rather than call yourself a thinker. Stupidity doesn’t respect boarders of class and race, and having an education doesn’t always seem to help ether. So the educated classes have their own set of biases. Who would have thought.

I hope this article isn’t indicative of Alok Jha’s work, mindless bias and fluff. I could pick more of it apart, but you get the jest of it. This article is full of gas!

I recall someone saying this exact same thing before. I think it was in WWI A.K.A. "the war to end all wars". Anyone who thinks war is going to disappear because of science is a complete idiot.
Science does nothing more than make people jealous of us and allows us to kill foreigners more efficently.
Besides, as long as Rummy is still alive, we will be in a constant state of war. And as long as people remember who Reagan was (PBOHS).

The Commies tried for a hundred years to replace religion with ideology. Didn't work. What chance does science have of replacing religion with data?

Perhaps I should clarify about my crack about George Bushes Sunday school class.
What the crack intended to convey was, many supposedly scholarly impressions about the direction of the world are about as well thought out as George Bushes Sunday School Class. They reflect views of the world that are every bit as simplistic as those attributed to terrible George. Being competent in a field of science doesn’t necessarily make one’s thoughts on government, history and politics any more profound than anyone else’s.

“What chance does science have of replacing religion with data?”

If the main purpose of religions is to provide a moral and ethical framework for how a society conducts itself and sees it’s place in the universe than science will always be peripheral to the subject of religion. There is no science of ethics. Human behavioral studies might impact ones view on some religious practices but your still left with the problem of how to set up an ethical society.

There are other places were science and religion do clash such as indeterminism in quantum physics being at odds with a religious need among some for an absolutely deterministic world where all action has some absolute purpose and a supreme being control over everything. Such a belief in deterministic purpose in religion may have as much to do with 19th century mechanistic views of the universe as any actual Biblical viewpoint.

The biggest point of contention would be with religious creation beliefs. Science does contradict Genesis. Even if science does win that sort of argument it doesn’t undermine or even address most fundamental precepts within much of religion. On that subject, my point is we could get into the creationism argument all we wanted, and still not touch at most of the core of Christian teaching. You and I may completely disagree on this but it remains that science and religion don’t overlap at too many points. You can’t get from religion to science or vice versa.

Have I let off enough gas yet?

Hah! I love it when the scientific socialist hold up Einstein as the symbol of ireligous science. What they all happen to forget is that in his final few years, Einstein saw such order in the universe and physics, that he came to believe there was no otehr posibility than to have an intellagent designer.
Science will replace religion? How long have they been making that claim? I know that's what they're aiming for; just flip through Skeptic magazine. I've been trying to tell everyone what a bunch of sharlitens they really are; no one believed me when they were just debunking the paranormal, but when they struck out on religion...well...I don't need to say "I told you so." On the brighter side, mabe this means the rapture is coming, which means we won't have to see this and it will give a whole new meaning to the phrase, "there is no intelligent life on the planet."
End to war? Someone's been passing them the Liberal cool-aid. 'Nuff said.
Longer life? I hope not. The more idiotic people are becoming (and it seems to be accelerating), I hope I'm not around forever. "Ghetto Garbage", kids wearing pants below their butt, rich suburban white kids emulating uneducated ghetto trash...I almost wish I didn't live to see that.
Are you sure this article wasn't written by the KKKos kids?

Chalupas!

Let's see, when Mooselims stop killing Mooslims and everyone else who isn't a follower of the Religion of Peas then the world will be calmer, fewer wars etc. Religion isn't the root cause of all problems, and it is the answer to far many more problems. Hang all the thinkers, burn the books and goose step your ass down to taco bell for a chalupa!

That was hilarious! These people are so dead set against the Bible.......

We already know the answer to the ultimate question.

42

What we don't know is what is the question.
(with thanks to Doug Adams)

I know the question and I ain't telling.

OT, but since this is an open thread I guess it's On Topic.
Anyway, FrankJ, is it true that you played Psycho on Stripes? I mean, Francis/Frank? It's so obvious.

//And they'll still probably skimp on the IMAO podcasts that are our only solace in this cold and cruel world.//

IMAO has podcasts? I thought that was just a wild rumor. There's a link but it only goes to ancient archeological recordings. I think the mythbusters busted this one long ago.

http://utairway.com/en/reg-Safari_Sightseeing-361-4.html - Safari Sightseeing
Safari Sightseeing

South Park already covered this. For those who didn't see it, the athiests go to war over the ultimate question - what they should call themselves.