Science defines our culture… and it works, bitches.

Science has made us what we are, more than anything else. The scientific method has given us an expected lifespan almost three times as long as the stone age sheep herders that wrote the Bible (and God himself actually appeared to and spoke to them personally). It has put a man on the moon, a spacecraft outside our solar system, eradicated smallpox, explored the bottom of the ocean and photographed the unseeable. It has frozen light, split atoms and discovered quantum mechanics. It has made virtually all of human knowledge available to anybody who cares to look from anywhere all of the time. It has created virtually all of human knowledge as it is.

I wish I could say it as succinctly and eloquently as xkcd: “This world is amazing and I’m going to live to experience more of it thanks to people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality.”

And then this stroke of pure genius: “I find my courage where I can, but I take my weapons from science. Because they work, bitches.”

“Science works whether you believe in it or not.” – Herb Silverman

Religion, on the other hand, only works when you can’t measure it,  can’t see it; when you can’t prove it. Funny that.

Check out the xkcd comic strip here.

The Economic Arguments Against Woo

Few people say it like xkcd says it. If you don’t know xkcd, you must check it out: http://xkcd.com/808/

Onward to the point:

The Economic Argument

I think that poster is spot on (as usual). If any of those woo related things worked, big business would be making money from it. Everything that helps make money, is used to help make money. If simple common sense isn’t good enough to convince you, surely simple capitalism is?

Mildly amusing cartoon collection

See, I didn’t put a number next to that one. Hmm, which gave me an idea, perhaps this will turn into a series where I will re-post all the Userfriendly cartoons, a whole month’s worth for every post… wonder if Illiad would mind and if he’s made 52 months worth of cartoons.

The pictures here are of my more favourite on-line cartoons and I found these amusing. I think the odds are very much in favour of you having seen these cartoons, so if you have, please proceed calmly to another section of the site where drinks will be served. Right? Right.

Jesus and Mo

Original cartoon at: http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/01/26/click/

Shorty Awards Fun!

PZ wrote a post about the fun and hilarity with the wookaloons and the Shorty Awards here.

The Far Left Side

Original cartoon at: http://www.farleftside.com/

Ain't that the gods own truth

Anybody who’s been paying attention know my feelings on this particular fool. For enlightenment on this topic: http://rationalists.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/letter-to-pat-robertson/

PHD Comics

Original cartoon at: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1271

PZ has been trying his damnedest to point this out to some idiocy afflicted site.

You can have a look at what I mean here, I try my holy (heh) best to participate in every Pharangulation of silly on-line polls.

xkcd

Original cartoon at: http://www.xkcd.com/687/

Social commentary much?

I love xkcd, much.

For the Inca nobility the llama were of symbolical significance and llama figures were often buried with the dead.

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Edit:
Some more web comics, you can vote for your favourite here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/01/the_best_webcomic_its_time_to.html

“Devil’s Panties” ; “Devin Crane” ; “Eric Monster Millikin” ; “Girl Genius” ;“Girls With Slingshots” ; “Hark! A Vagrant” ; “Jesus and Mo” ; “Kevin and Kell” ; “Least I Could Do” ; “Navy Bean” ; “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” ; “Order of the Stick” ; “Penny Arcade” ; “Perry Bible Fellowship” ; “Pibgorn” ; “PvP” ; “Questionable Content” ; “Red String” ;“Schlock Mercenary” ; “Sinfest” ; “UserFriendly.Org” ; “xkcd.”