/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6484113

>I actually like the fact that parents lie to their kids about Santa. I think it is a great stepping stone for kids to say to themselves "If my parents lied to me about Santa, what else have they been lying to me about?".

Christianity does that too.

>Atheists do not believe that they are going to be saved.

So, what then? We all die out in the next few thousand years like every other species that has ever existed, without ever colonizing space or living on another planet?

I somehow doubt that as it is an extremely rare thing to believe.

>I used the first hit on google as a quick way to show you that it isn't some fringe group like you claimed

And your careless approach to backing up a preconceived idea backfired. You clearly believed that creationists had huge numbers and were a huge problem and THEN you went looking for the evidence to support it. Shit, that's creationist science.

>This was all worth it because that made me piss my fucking pants.

Then you don't know what it means to be skeptical. It's more than just reading and parroting chris hitches or dan denett or sam harris.

>There is a fucking young earth museum in the states that shows people walking with dinosaurs.

Who fucking cares? Cosmos showed this as a "possible" future for the earth and that's just as much nonsense.

>>6450300

The point is to lie to children to bolster the ranks of scientists and engineers wasting their lives to develop a new ziplock bag or pizza topping.

They lie about the universe being grand, science being great, etc etc. It's all just cherrypicking. You think they're going to do an episode on war, the cause of and actual source of scientific progress? Fuck no, their ideology won't allow it.

At its best, it's just another piece of shit to rerun on natgeo wild, and at worst, it's selling science fiction as fact. See image.