I think Dexter's right (excuse the pun, people) in that you know little of science.
Like if it is important to know much about science!
Is Jesus A Prophet According To The Old Testament?
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Like if it is important to know much about science!
From an essay by Bertrand Russell
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If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."
Spade; are you familiar with what they did in Cairo? They were convinced that Swine flu comes from swines, so they killed off all the pigs in Cairo. But pigs were very effective, very efficient garbage disposals, they used to eat the organic waste, and people (mostly Christians) then would eat the pigs.
But the government killed all the pigs, and now garbage is piling up in Cairo, there is a big stink in Cairo these days. We are going to visit Egypt and Jordan in January and I am not looking forward to it (luckily, we stay in Cairo for only two days).
You are right, big, it is not important to know anything about science. Average person gets along just fine without knowing anything about science.
And if you want to go through life without any curiosity as to how the universe works, what formed the stars, planets, etc., that is your right. The problem comes when people who know next to nothing about science try to dictate to scientists as to what scientists should and should not believe. Like Creationists trying to force Creationism down the throat of scientists.
A constant force, acting on a particle of mass m, will produce a constant acceleration a. Let us choose the x-axis to be in the common direction of F and a. What is the work done by this force on the particle in causing a displacement x? We have, for constant acceleration, the relations a = ( V - v ) / t and x = ½ ( V + v ) t. Here v is the particle's speed at t = 0 and V is its speed at time t. The the work done is W = F x = m a x = m ( ( V - v ) / t ) ( ½ ( V + v ) ) t = ½ m V² - ½ m v². We call one-half the product of the mass of a body and the square of its speed the kinetic energy of the body. If we represent kinetic energy by the symbol K, then K = ½ m v². We may then state the above equation in this way: The work done by the resultant force acting on a particle is equal to the change in the kinetic energy of the particle, and thus the universe came into being.
