re: #56 Varek Raith

Does science have to be agnostic about pink space unicorns? Flying spaghetti monsters?

Science is agnostic about alien life… Why could something that looks like a pink unicorn not exist somewhere else? Same for spaghetti monsters.

No data means no data.

Now if I told you that the spaghetti monster, came to times square every Tuesday at noon and fondled girls with his noodlely appendages, that is a measurable and falsifiable claim. There is no need to be agnostic about that.

If I told you that pink unicorns created the magnetic field, when you can go an measure mag fields and know all about moving charges and what relativistic effects do to electric fields, again, I would be SOL.

However, religions only get in trouble when their more stupid adherrents try to ignore facts and evidence.

If you want to say that there are lots of really obnoxious and dumb religious people, I will be right with you. Just be scientific about how you say it and don’t forget all the really shitty non-believers out there too.