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Author Topic:   To fund or not to fund - Are some science projects worth pursuing?
Coyote
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Message 51 of 74 (594434)
12-03-2010 12:31 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by Bolder-dash
12-03-2010 12:27 PM


Re: per your advice
Well, when 60-100 million children starve to death every decade, when another 800 million people annually are malnourished, when 20,000 square miles of ocean are clogged with plastic contamination, when we are 30 years away from no more oil, when 10% of all college age blacks are in prison in America, when 50 million Americans are without health insurance, when we have no long term strategy for storing spent nuclear material, when 250 million people contract malaria every year...and a whole host of other issues, I say the money spent to satisfy people's curiosity is the bigger crime.
And besides, creationists already know all the answers they need to know, right?
No point in that science stuff, eh?

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Coyote
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Message 71 of 74 (595087)
12-06-2010 1:53 PM


Defund science?
Without science we would be a third-world country.
Historical example: Arab countries were the seat of science during the European Dark Ages. Then, for about the same reasons as precipitated the Dark Ages, they turned their backs on science.
I wouldn't want to see that sort of nonsense happen here because of some lame excuses about feeding the poor and solving all of our other problems first.
The innovations coming out of science are the solutions to many of our problems. Examples: just start with agriculture and medicine for two. Microelectronics is another, and that field has revolutionized the world in about 50 years.

  
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