I don't think some of the people who actually went to the moon would agree with that misleading statement
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There were plenty of religious people who flew to the Moon.
The Apollo 8 crew (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders) read Biblical verses from the Book of Genesis while they orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve, 1968.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin took Communion shortly after landing on the Moon.
Apollo 11 Flight Director Gene Kranz (not an astronaut but a very important person at NASA) said in his wonderful book Failure Is Not An Option (page 276), "Blessed by my mother with strong faith, during almost every mission, I find a way to get to church and pray for wise judgement and courage, and pray also for my team and the crew."
Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa told author Andrew Chaikin about listening to the hymn "How Great Thou Art" while he was in lunar orbit (Voices From The Moon, page 111).
Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott left a Bible behind on the Moon. His crewmate Jim Irwin founded a Christian ministry after retiring from NASA. It was called the High Flight foundation.
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke also founded a Christian ministry.
I found this in reply to the video The Magician's Twin sums it up for me science is a two bladed sword its gives us some wonderful and life saving things but it also gives us this........
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The ability to poison our air and oceans, destroy our ecosystems, create global plagues and kill millions of people with a single push of a button.... is all brought to you by science, not religion.
Believe whatever you want... but it's not religious groups that are strip mining, fracking, deforesting, pumping billions of tons of pollution into the air and dumping toxic wastes into our oceans. None of those things are religiously motivated. In terms of the ability to destroy humanity... religion is nothing more than children playing make-believe with sticks and stones. Science is what churns out the weapons, poisons, pollution, drugs, chemicals and machinery that has put our planet on the brink of extinction.
When the institutions of science stop creating the means and methods for global destruction and wholesale human misery... maybe then they can spout their bull# about how morally superior science is to religion
I'm not even sure where to start with the shortcomings of the other quote however. Perhaps here...
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When the institutions of science stop creating the means and methods for global destruction and wholesale human misery... maybe then they can spout their bull# about how morally superior science is to religion
As Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains, it's not the discovery that's immoral, it's the application. "Would you go back in time and say 'Don't smelt the ore to make the iron because you could make a knife and cut yourself'? NO! Of course not!" Is it the smithy or the forge who is responsible for war? No, because behind every scientific breakthrough is a politician willing to pay for it.
I'm all for people like the Ahmish who actually live in the manner your quote suggests, but to type on a computer, over the internet, under a lightbulb, on a chair made from oil based chemicals, while giving 'science' a one finger salute is the ultimate irony.
I don't think some of the people who actually went to the moon would agree with that misleading statement
I found this in reply to the video The Magician's Twin sums it up for me science is a two bladed sword its gives us some wonderful and life saving things but it also gives us this........
Aaanyway............ nice mug!
on a similar note i was in camden markets this year and i saw a t-shirt that read "if you are too stupid to understand science... try religion!"
ha ha what a cracker!
pat
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had that thought we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
-- Douglas Adams, THHGTTG, Chapter 18
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had that thought we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
-- Douglas Adams, THHGTTG, Chapter 18
True, i stand corrected. What was I thinking Oh that's right, oh no, not again.
Ahh, the wonders of the Internet! Started off a topic about a slogan on a coffee cup. End up discussing my absolute favourite author and favourite series of books.
Oh that's right, oh no, not again. 
