Self Certified Genius of the World

  I have been an atheist for most of my life. I have never truly believed that God exists or such thing. More recently, I have started looking down upon people that do believe in God. Not a hatred kind of looking down upon them, but rather a pitiful look down or maybe even a cuter look down upon. Like when you see a child earnestly insisting that Santa Claus exists. You pity the child's ignorance and you find it cute, but secretly you also get a bit tense knowing that his/her ignorance cannot last very long. And, you wonder if that earnest child could really handle the news when it hits them hard.   So, in summary all I am saying is, people who believe in a God are stupid. They should grow up and really think hard about what they mean when they say they believe in God. Half of them will mutter and sputter and fail to come up with what they really believe. Most would say something asinine like "I am sure there is something out there" or "There will be chaos if n...

   For some time now, I have been thinking about stupid science quotes. And here is one I keep repeating "Science is an asymptote to the truth". I like it first and foremost because I believe I came up with it all by myself. Or, it could be a severe case of  Cryptomnesia. In any case, I like the quote and I feel it succinctly and eloquently ties together all the failings and flailings of science. The truth about the Universe when completely known would enable us to predict the past, present and future of all that happened or will happen. Or, it might tell us that we may never be able to do so. But until then, we only get a bit closer to that goal. The quote's wisdom can be best demonstrated by the rise of quantum mechanics. Its rise does not negate classical mechanics. It merely points out that classical mechanics is just a limited version of quantum mechanics. So, in that sense, quantum mechanics brings us slightly closer to the truth of how matter really beha...