tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post8466041913173653435..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: The crystal spheresGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-20932553990103688492016-06-21T13:37:27.467-07:002016-06-21T13:37:27.467-07:00No...it's not quite that earth is surrounded b...No...it's not quite that earth is surrounded by glass spheres. It's that the earth is CONCAVE and there is a glass layer in the sky inside the concave earth. Get it right, shill!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02814804554194390618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-40185527301234067642014-08-06T19:44:05.479-07:002014-08-06T19:44:05.479-07:00When future historians or archaeologists brood ove...When future historians or archaeologists brood over the remnants of our civilization, they will discover that we crumbled because a critical mass of our society turned against rational thought, observable facts, and testable hypotheses in favor of irrationality, mysticism, and charlatanry. <br /><br />People such as The Wild Heretic and certain know-nothing political parties in the U.S. and people who deny, say, climate change are in essence arguing against the continuation of civilization as we know it. You cannot argue with such people. If they cannot be persuaded by a preponderance of evidence in a debate, they are a danger to the rest of us.George Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13621243255715875548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-61503772969676052592014-08-06T14:46:20.303-07:002014-08-06T14:46:20.303-07:00With your post today and movies like Idiocracy in ...With your post today and movies like Idiocracy in mind...<br /><br />Is collective human advancement producing a greater percentage of intelligent people?<br /><br />...to ask another way...<br /><br />Are there more Einstein-level intelligent human beings alive today because of collective advancement/propagation, or merely the law of averages due to population increase?<br /><br />If the percentage of highly intelligent humans is, in fact, outpacing population growth, will it continue to do so?<br /><br />How interesting/important will these quandaries be when there are a trillion people on the planet?<br />Example: If a kooky new cult came along and managed to capture 10 billion people in it's brain-washy net, that would only be 1% of Earth's population.<br />Scary stuff!Hontseur Thotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799765178908406877noreply@blogger.com