Atheism leads to science

GodlessHeathen wrote

That's not fair - you posted an actual scientist! Not that a woman that looks like the lab-coat chick couldn't be a scientists, but for some reason I don't think the woman in the picture actually is a scientist.

But she has a lab coat........

[inkadu]

[Hertzyscowicz]

robusthealthysoul wrote

Does science fiction count as science? I was a huge A.C. Clark/Asimov fan when I was a kid, and they wrote quite a few stories questioning faith or at least positing different interpretations of what faith is. This is what started me questioning religion. It was more a love of space that led me to science. Atheism was always kind of a given.

My turning may have been partially induced by fantasy literature. The fact that someone thought religions up for enterntainment purposes kind of led me to question real-world religion. I've unfortunately not found the time to read any of Asimov's or Clark's production. It might be a similar phenomenon, though.

I don't really know what happened to me. I guess I can blame it on the huge subscription to National Geographic (LOL) I've been collecting since 1994. Somewhere between 1994 and now I decided that I needed answers.

[inkadu]

hannahasbury1 wrote

I guess I can blame it on the huge subscription to National Geographic (LOL) I've been collecting since 1994.

Query: What's so funny about a subscription to National Geographic?

[Choobus]

inkadu wrote

Query: What's so funny about a subscription to National Geographic?

the same thing that is funny about all Hannah's posts........ NOTHING

My Gran bought me a subscription to National Geographic. :P

[Kate]

My doctor has a subscription to National Geographic. :rolleyes:

[inkadu]

GaryM wrote

My Gran bought me a subscription to National Geographic. :P

My parents collect 'em. The ones for 40-50-60's are interesting, but almost entirely for the advertisements. I love it that car advertisements used to try to convince people that they needed a car -- not a particular brand of car -- just any car. But NG doesn't have a lot of advertisng, so my parents would have been wiser to collect Time, Life or Newsweek. At least if they wanted to entertain their son...

My parents are still keeping all their NG's. Apparently NG is one of those magazines EVERYONE collects, because I keep finding decades worth of NG's in the library's free bin.

[Irreligious]

National Geographic = Pure porn. Least it was back in the day, before Playboy.

inkadu wrote

My parents collect 'em. The ones for 40-50-60's are interesting, but almost entirely for the advertisements. I love it that car advertisements used to try to convince people that they needed a car -- not a particular brand of car -- just any car. But NG doesn't have a lot of advertisng, so my parents would have been wiser to collect Time, Life or Newsweek. At least if they wanted to entertain their son...

My parents are still keeping all their NG's. Apparently NG is one of those magazines EVERYONE collects, because I keep finding decades worth of NG's in the library's free bin.

In the ones I have, the overwhelming majority of ads are for cameras or photo printers, and the rest are for exotic holidays or "green" cars. There's also ads for energy companies that just say how eco-friendly they are, e.g. there's an ad where ExxonMobil points out it researches "new energy technologies".

[inkadu]

Irreligious wrote

National Geographic = Pure porn. Least it was back in the day, before Playboy.

That's how I knew I wasn't racist.

:wall:

[inkadu]

GaryM wrote

In the ones I have, the overwhelming majority of ads are for cameras or photo printers, and the rest are for exotic holidays or "green" cars. There's also ads for energy companies that just say how eco-friendly they are, e.g. there's an ad where ExxonMobil points out it researches "new energy technologies".

And something about outrageously glossy advertisements doesn't scream, "environmentally friendly."

Judging from the advertisements, NG readers are fabulously wealthy, environmentally-minded and probably a little bit shallow.

inkadu wrote

Judging from the advertisements, NG readers are fabulously wealthy, environmentally-minded and probably a little bit shallow.

You do get the feeling that you should be driving around in a solar-powered car taking photos with a serious camera.

[inkadu]

GaryM wrote

You do get the feeling that you should be driving around in a solar-powered car taking photos with a serious camera.

National Geographic: For people who work too hard to ever take a vacation, but if they did, hoo-boy, they'd have the right camera.