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Article #12592Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Ben Dolan
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:44
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:44
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BuddyThunder <nospam@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > I am doing it seriously. What matters are the equations, not the > > money. > > Well okay, when you're published, let us know! You know, I've been reading Bobby's ardent defense of his "equations" year after year. It really is quite bizarre. This week's podcast of This American Life contains a segment which is eerily similar. A man, high school educated, working as an electrician, with no physics education concluded that "E = mc squared" was false. He quit his job and spent a year working on his theory, believing with every fiber of his being that he had found a mistake which every physicist (including Einstein) had missed. Of course, it turned out the guy was completely off base, making mistakes a first year physics student wouldn't. But when that was pointed out to him (for example, that the units in his calculations don't match), he of course refused to believe it, claiming instead that the physics "elite" were just out to get him. It really was sadly comical. One of the interesting bits that came out of the story is just how many crackpots like this guy are out there. Apparently it has been observed often enough that physicists have numerous stories of encounters with these nutcases, and they always follow the same pattern. They believe they have discovered something everyone else missed, and they completely block out any rebuttal or debunking of their argument. One professor commented that such behavior is usually associated with schizophrenia. Bobby follows this exact same pattern. And of course, schizophrenia has also long been associated with pathological religious beliefs, so in Bobby's case, we have a "twofer"...
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