FuhrerVonZephyr said:
"Evolution is just your opinion"
>.<
Oh boy, tell me about it. I actually explained to a guy (in slow, easy steps, of course) how natural selection works. His reply was that God made the world perfect, therefore God steps in all the time to stop the process of natural selection. There are some folks who just can't be helped.
1) One of my big ones is photo enhancement as shown on TV. I've done photo enhancement. You can do a lot but you
cannot extract detail that is not present in the image. Characters on procedural shows are routinely depicted extracting mugshot-quality portraits from images so grainy and indistinct you can barely tell they are of people. I even saw one episode where they digitally turned a guy's head so they could see his face!
His back was to the camera, meaning
no image could have been captured in any way, but they got a picture of sufficient quality to issue a warrant!
To a lesser extent, all TV science bugs me: people surviving explosions by leaping away, computer hacking depicted as if it were a video game, adding the word DNA to make things sound complicated, explosions made of slowly rolling blobs of fire, that sort of thing.
2) The idea that science and religion are mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed, like it's a boxing match and only one of them can leave the ring with the title.
Science is about
rational facts. Religion is about
irrational truth. They've got little if anything to do with each other. Science isn't out to kill God. Science doesn't care whether people believe or not. Religion cannot destroy science because it's awful hard to deny the viability of a system that has proven itself by giving us electricity, cars, jumbo jets, and cable TV.
People like to point to cell phones, modern medicine, and other inventions as representing the triumph of science. Yet the majority of people still believe in a supreme being. The church I drive past every morning on my way to work is packed to capacity on Sundays. Continuing the sports analogy, it's more like science is boxing and religion is, I dunno, water polo or something. There's simply no way they could ever interfere with each other.
3) People who don't know basic units of measurement, e.g. how many pints are in a gallon, bug the shit out of me. I would advocate going metric as a solution, but how could people ever be made to understand another system when they can't handle the system they were raised on?
4) People who can't do simple math. These folks need to die. There is no excuse,
none, for not being able to figure out how many times 17 goes into 4913. I have worked around people who could not do basic addition and subtraction. I learned that shit in the first grade and built on it almost daily for the next twelve years. Where was everyone else??
