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Author Topic:   Not only Intelligent Design - but DIVINE DESIGN!
DevilsAdvocate
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05-20-2010 2:59 PM


Self-Promotional Garbage
It has been a while sense I have posted, however, this thread peeked my interest. Mostly, because I detest the attitude some of these spammers (such as the one here) have and how gullible they think we are.
Many of these spammers think that their 'ideas' are innovative and novel when in fact they regurgitate accumulated pseudoscientific and spiritual/religious garbage off the internet in order to create a book they can sell, make money and gain recognition. This is usually because they have very little formal education in the field they are profess they are proficient in and have done very little real field work or research in these subjects. Many times they think a couple of weeks, months or even years studying these subjects makes them experts. However, true scientists, critical thinkers and innovators recognize that their work MUST stand on the work of previous scientists and innovators and CANNOT exist in a vacuum without real scientific evidence and knowledge.
I am getting really sick and tired of people spamming internet forums such as EvC with self-promotional anti-science garbage. I am sorry but I am calling a spade, a spade. This lady has spewed her pseudoscientific (I have a more adequate adjective but will refrain) book across the nethernet in order to fulfill her need for:
a. fame/recognition and/or
b. lucrative money making business
What she and others do not realize is that REAL objective scientific investigation is a long, grueling and many times dull endeavor which in some fields can take years, centuries and millennia of scientific research and investigation to churn out well thought out theories.
Wrapping 3-d spirals around letters of an ancient alphabet and referencing the golden rectangle/pi/Fibonacci sequence to prove the existence of God (wow, she really thinks no one has suggested this before :rolleyes is NOT science and is not a credible argument in any rational forum of investigation.
If you think I am being mean to her just check out what she wrote about her own book:
Anita Meyer writes:
Presented before you is the one book that gives the reader the ultimate evidence that G-d exists. A feat that almost all have failed to prove beyond any spiritual perspective. It is the holy grail of all grails!!! There is nobody on the face of the Earth that has the full encompassing knowledge that this book contains. The reader might be thinking that this is a similar story that they’ve heard many times before. But this one IS DIFFERENT, I can assure you! ...
In addition to this, the book goes on to dig further for the truth and unearths secrets woven deeply within the infrastructure of both science, religion and spirituality. Secrets that touch the hearts and minds of all of us, even the atheist. This book is labeled as fiction, but it is so compelling that the readers must decide for themselves if it is actually nonfiction.
Wow, "this one is different, I can assure you". Never heard that one before. Reading various forums where she has posted, it looks like this is a money making business for you and your family and probably the reason you published this book. JMHO.
Anita, you may think me a jerk, I really don't care. However, I will not standby while you try to pull the wool over people's eyes. I have a personal stake in this since I have family members that wouldn't bat an eyelash about buying your book to use as 'evidence' for their extremist anti-science religious fundamental life-style.
BTW before you write me off, I am not an atheist (I consider myself to be officially an agnostic but am not opposed to a supernatural entity aka deism) and my wife is a born-again Christian. We both attend a Methodist church and send our daughter to a Christian preschool.
I am just tired of this flood of pseudoscientific crap people are spewing over the internet. You give both your religion and science which you espouse you promote a black eye. Do the real research, go to the universities of higher learning, study underneath the researchers in the fields and in the labs, devote yourself to a life-time of learning. Remain objective, stop bringing your biased religious beliefs into the fray. That is what true science is all about: critical thinking and objective explanations of the universe we exist in.
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"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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