Monday, August 07, 2006

Disclaimer (I am a lawyer)

I found an interesting website, but noticed that it probably doesn't even agree with what I'm reading in "Elegant Universe". Since I sometimes comment on things I know nothing about, such as physics, I just wanted to make clear that I am just a layperson interested in physics. Much like Rob Bryanton, I think, (as he says in his "Preamble"), my ideas are ruminations or mind exercises without anything solid, like training in physics, to back them up, and I would be very surprised indeed if they had an ounce of truth to them. I am a trained lawyer, not physicist...which, incidentally is the problem behind these people. They are a major anti-evolution organization that tries to look as though it is simply an advocate of good science. Notice that most of the major players in the organization are lawyers...very few have physical science degrees. What is it about lawyers that they think they know everything about anything, when in reality they know nothing? This is probably why they have so much fun making up and memorizing abstract rules that are really usually horrible ideas. Our society is run by sophists...everyone has to follow the stupid rules and pay lawyers to argue that one rule applies rather than another! I mean really...shouldn't social scientists (economists, psychologists, sociologists etc...i.e. the ones that devote their lives to studying human problems and their resolution) be making the rules for society? The only thing a lawyer is trained in is how to argue that one abstract rule should apply rather than another. Pseudo-science is dangerous, in that it damages science's reputation, and in that it can be used to have the appearance of valid science and be used to support dangerous ends or political viewpoints.

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