It doesn't work on the internet because everyone wants to just unload their religious based baggage onto the topic rather then really taking part in a discussion.
Then you get people who don't really understand what is going on and think that the topic is just about unleashing as much text partially related to the topic at hand. (Nonsense posters... Who are very much alive on Bay12games)
Then you get people who are offended at the two people above who unleash their wraph (note: This is a System group as they are capable of offending those within this group of people thus sustaining it infinitum.)
With just these three, the list has around 6 points, any religion based topic is doomed to fail. The problem is that the internet cannot handle Controvercy very well.
People are the same in real life. I took a course on argumentation, unfortunately, for most people, argument consists of yelling and screaming until one party leaves in frustration.
The idea that something so incredibly bias could make it into a science textbook, something that should be full of rational thinking, is bizarre. Even more so that its not even bias against religion, at least then you could trust the physics to be accurate. Who knows how much you can trust this thing?
I have nothing against religion but when they try to brainwash people into believing a wrong version of science, that's unacceptable.
Please post more, I would love to see what blatant contradictions this book contains.
I checked the later chapters. Other than some random and often unnecessary Bible verses, it's just your average Physics textbook. The lectures that accompany it, however, make scientists out to be assholes through the whole course.
One glorious piece of logic from the professor is:
"The Bible is the word of god, and explains how the world was created. The scientists made up the theory of evolution. God told us how he made the world, and the scientists weren't there.
It would be like a guy telling you how he made a car, and a scientist walks up and says "no, you must have made it like this..." Since they are going against what god said, they are claiming to have a higher authority than god"
If you thinks physics is bad, my spanish had me translate:
"The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom." Which I think is the single most horrible thing you could teach anyone. Since god in this case is inevitable, it'd be like telling everyone to be afraid of the air."
Again, I don't hold anything personally against Christianity, but I think that such things should be left out of authentic learning material.
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