Atheists & Agnostics

Binkie The Clown

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15. It's the "obviously" part I take issue with.

Sun Oct 1, 2017, 12:06 PM

Oct 2017

"Obviously" an electron must pass through one slit or the other. It's ridiculous to assert that it could somehow pass through both slits and interfere with itself. That just takes a few minutes of honest reflection to realize.

Nature has many ways of surprising us with things that are not only not obvious, but downright bizarre. Closing one's mind to the possibilities before examining the evidence is the opposite of science.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.
— Stephen W. Hawking
In A Brief History of Time, (1988, 1998), 80.

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Oh lordy. [View all] Duppers Sep 2017 OP

Well, I'm just dying safeinOhio Sep 2017 #1

😂 Duppers Sep 2017 #2

Good effing grief! n/t Brainstormy Sep 2017 #3

further down the thread, I found this mountain grammy Sep 2017 #4

So many have said it. Duppers Sep 2017 #5

must be true. mountain grammy Sep 2017 #6

😁 Duppers Sep 2017 #7

You know, it doesn't matter if you don't believe in reincarnation. In your next life you will. Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #8

That's fair. Duppers Sep 2017 #9

wait, it took years to figure out astrology was utter bullshit? Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #10

Yes, because I don't jump to conclusions, and I really did want there to be something to it. Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #11

Er, um "the math of astrology" could be all sorts of exact and complicated but Voltaire2 Oct 2017 #14

It's the "obviously" part I take issue with. Binkie The Clown Oct 2017 #15

You believe one-cell critters possibly have an afterlife? Duppers Sep 2017 #12

Hmmm. I don't think so, because..... Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #13