No matter how hard you try, you just can’t make up crap like this. No wonder we are often considered the intellectual laughing stock of the world.
Conservapedia founder and Eagle Forum University instructor Andy Schlafly — Phyllis Schlafly’s son — has found one more liberal plot: the theory of relativity.
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Why does Andy Schlafly hate the theory of relativity? We’re pretty sure it’s because he’s decided it doesn’t square with the Bible. In the entry, “Counterexamples to Relativity,” the authors (including Schlafly) write:The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.
To what does that reference lead? Why, a note by Schlafly:
See, e.g., historian Paul Johnson’s book about the 20th century, and the article written by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe as allegedly assisted by Barack Obama. Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold
In other words, reading a theory about physics is correlated to a decrease in people’s interest in reading the Bible, which means that it causes people to stop reading the Bible.
Using your brain impairs your understanding of the Bible. I can believe that.
I appreciate both Einstein and the Bible, so I’m getting a kick out of this.
This fear of science is astounding.
Well, obviously, you can make up crap like that, because _someone_ did! I believe John Galt has set up an account there, just so he can fill it with extreme views and hasten the demise of this idiocratic country.
You have to admit that both Einstein’s theory and the Bible fairy tail are both outrageous to rationalize!!
Talking snakes and parting seas are in way easier to explain than space time.
@Dallas
But Relativity is testable. The Bible? Not so much.
#6 Good point. However, with the right drugs from Rush Limbaugh’s meds cabinet, I can prove to myself of not only a talking snake, but a belt that turns into a snake and then talks!!
I know there are some crazy Conservative types who post here. I wonder how long it will be before someone defends this crap.
There was a link in a recent post in the Vanguard Network website (a thinly disguised FBI/ADL operation pretending to be run by jew-hating White supramacists) about this. Einstein was supposed to have hijacked the relativity idea from Henri Poincare.
As I hold a degree in Physics, and am Conservative, I can assure all the liberals there is nothing to see here. You can’t paint us all with the same bush in this case. I also have extensively studied genetics and have read just about all of Charles Darwin’s books. Nonetheless, I do not take the Bible as anything more than a collection of fables. Political Conservativism has nothing to do with religion in my case.
I am not seeing how learning relativity makes people stop reading the Bible. As a science fiction writer, I regularly do relativity equations to get the time frame of my story correct. I had to learn relativity to do so. I never stopped reading the Bible.
I believe that the author of this story is confusing Einsteins theory of relativity with relativism. That is what makes his statements seem absurd. It is almost absurd as the group of people confusing niggardly with the N-word.
It is not a failing in science. It is a failing in vocabulary. I don’t know which is worse.
#11,
I think you are on the right track. It is not the theory of relativity that is contrary to the Bible, but if you extend to concept outside of the scope it was meant to be applied, it does change the way we view reality.
The same can be said for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Even though it only applies at the quantum level (and some people think quantum computers will invalidate it), people apply the concept to everything.
I believe that as these scientific concepts have been popularized, society has absorbed them and applied them incorrectly.
Relativism has been around for a long time, but ask the average person on the street, and you many of them believe that science shows everything is relative and you can’t know anything for certain. These are philosophical concepts, not scientific concepts. Whether or not you believe them will certainly change your view of religion, since philosophy and religion have always been intertwined. In reality, they can change your view of science and in many respects are anti-science. They are not, however, concepts which can be proved or disproved by science.
Every Christian who believes that the Bible is completely true already invariably subscribes to some theory of multiple simultaneous universes, necessary to reconcile certain glaring contradictions of fact in their “holy scriptures.”
But relativity is a liberal plot. Right!
Conservapedia is a liberal plot, tbh. XD
Relativity != Relativism
I can both read and believe in the entire Bible and study and believe in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
I can study and believe in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and not subscribe to Relativism.
I have real problem’s with relativism. I have no problems with relativity (except that it is really hard) and I also believe the Bible. None of those three statements were inconsistent.
The Germans were ahead of the World in understanding the nuclear reaction in the early 1930′s. Hitler had little faith however in “Jewish Physics” and never gave support to their Jewish Ideas.
The fact that he was a Catholic had nothing to do with anything else. Hitler could be a good Nazi and a good Catholic at the same time.
Its called compartmentalization. Good for what ails ya.
Bible=
Old testament-
the rules and History of the Jewish people.
(love those anti-Semitics)
New testament-
Life and times of Christ.
So, where is the Judgment of God in here?
The bible does NOT tell us NOT TO LEARN. There are NO restrictions EXCEPT THOSE, for the interactions of MORE then 1 person. And all they mean..BE NICE TO EACH OTHER.
The problem I see, is that we USE GOD as the person to..
Bitch at
Complain to
ASK impossible favors
cry to
BLAME
Praise..
When ANYTHING HAPPENS.. And most of the problems of MANKIND, are MAN MADE. And GOD never fixed a problem that WE CAUSED ourselves.
and what a good job Hitler was against Jewish Physics. If he’d got the bomb before starting the war I doubt we would be dicussing this.
Hitler supported some Jewish ideas, such as European “quotas” for Jew emigration and finally Palestine. Zionist movement was opposed to the first and supportive of the second. They collaborated with him. Jews have a tendency to run with the hare and hunt with the wolves. They cannot see that they are being used.
There are no liberal plots or right-wing plots. The people who own them create these plots and the sheeple play their parts.
Correction: “Jew emigration” – “Jewish emigration”.
And, the Holocaust was a plot against Jews for running away to other European countries and not to Palestine, the future military base masquerading as a homeland/colony.
Divide and rule. Set Jews against whites, whites against Jews, blacks against whites and blacks and Jews… These are the real plots against people. If you focus on some plots, you are stupid.