[Via BadAstronomy.] Hooray! More and more intelligent people are questioning the intellectual know-it-alls who call themselves scientists. Here’s a clip of one more person who should be praised for her courage. We need to teach our children to be more like her — willing to question authority and their fascist desire to make us all think like them. Sherri Shepherd – what an appropriate last name for someone who will lead us to the promised land!
My only concern is that Sherri isn’t stating the flat earth more forcefully, like as Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz: “The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished.” [Muslim religious edict, 1993, Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia]
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Sherri Sheperd resembles some other creationists that I know: a mixture of scientific ignorance and belief that the Bible is the literal truth (sometimes mixed with a disinterest in learning anything more about it). These are the most difficult people to reach. It reminds me of one time when I mentioned some evidence that supported evolution to a family member, and they simply replied, “That’s not what the Bible says”. End of discussion. As far as I can tell, they are in a nice, little comfortable spot where everything fits together neatly (all the Bible stories starting with Genesis 1 are literally true, everyone just needs to believe in Jesus), and their ignorance enables them to avoid experiencing cognitive dissonance.
This is spot-on, I love your site, and I hate to be a pedant … still, when you say ‘…a mixture of scientific ignorance and belief that the Bible is the literal truth (sometimes mixed with a disinterest in learning anything more about it)’ I think you mean ‘…uninterested in learning…’, or maybe ‘…with no interest in learning …’ Disinterestedness is something else, indeed is a properly scientific quality rare in Bible bashers.
By the way: that Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz quotation is … just boggleworthy.
You can learn a lot from a pedant, so keep it up Adam. You certainly impart more knowledge than Ms. Shepherd
By the way: that Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz quotation is … just boggleworthy.
I think it is based off of teachings in the Koran, combined with the fact that Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz is blind (and therefore, is in a particularly poor position to actually see evidence for a spherical earth). Apparently, he’s been blind “since youth”, and has been saying this kind of stuff for a long time. Example: “In 1966, bin Baz insisted that the Copernican view of the universe was heresy, that the sun revolved around the earth, and that the earth itself was flat. Anyone who disagreed, said bin Baz, was guilty of ‘falsehood towards God, the Koran, and the Prophet.'” Nevertheless, he was eventually appointed to extremely high positions within Islam: Grand Mufti and leader of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars in Saudi Arabia.
Rats, YouTube reports video no longer available.
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Hey DrDave. I updated the YouTube link.