Bill Nye dared to suggest that the moon is not a source of light, but only a reflector. That made some people angry.
Basic science confronts basic scripture.
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:May 17, 2013
- Post category:Religion / Science
- Post comments:3 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
After puzzling over the question of why so many (Southern Baptist) Christian evangelicals claim to believe so many idiotic things, and why they become so outraged when those beliefs are disputed, I have come up with a possible answer: their behavior stems from trying to cover up one lie with another. Their first lie is that the Bible is literally true. Once they assert that lie, they then must resort to ever more absurd lies to sustain the original. Whether it’s suggesting that the moon is a source of light or rejecting the evidence for Darwinian evolution, the lie that the Bible is literally true paints them into a corner from which their only exist is to invent more lies. It’s almost like the movie, ‘Fargo’, where one misguided plan becomes the starting point for many more, until, inevitably, the whole scheme cartwheels out of control.
Grumpy, I think I agree. Once one declares something to be “sacred,” it cannot be questioned. Hence, when people declare a book full of self-contradictions to be absolutely and completely true, this compels them to proceed to tie themselves into pretzels justifying the book. One philosopher called theology “tennis without a net.”
Very interesting, a fractal universe of lies 😉