FromWayDowntown
08-12-2010, 10:36 AM
This could be fun:
A couple of days ago, Jonathan Adler pointed Volokh Conspiracy readers to this bit of political insight:
The Theory of Relativity is actually a liberal plot to encourage moral relativism and distort how people view the world. (See FN1) Who knew? Does this mean gravity is a conspiracy to keep us down?
http://volokh.com/2010/08/10/relativity-is-a-liberal-plot/
Adler's post cited to both a piece (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/conservapedia_founder_takes_on_the_notorious_liber .php) concerning this argument and to original (http://conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity) source material (http://conservapedia.com/Counterexamples_to_Relativity) advancing the argument. A footnote in the source material describing counterexamples to relativity explains:
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.
I'm kind of inclined to the view that Einstein is right, yet I still read the Bible. Am I "virtually no one," or should I expect to be swallowed up in short order by the universe as an unsustainable paradox?
A couple of days ago, Jonathan Adler pointed Volokh Conspiracy readers to this bit of political insight:
The Theory of Relativity is actually a liberal plot to encourage moral relativism and distort how people view the world. (See FN1) Who knew? Does this mean gravity is a conspiracy to keep us down?
http://volokh.com/2010/08/10/relativity-is-a-liberal-plot/
Adler's post cited to both a piece (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/conservapedia_founder_takes_on_the_notorious_liber .php) concerning this argument and to original (http://conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity) source material (http://conservapedia.com/Counterexamples_to_Relativity) advancing the argument. A footnote in the source material describing counterexamples to relativity explains:
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.
I'm kind of inclined to the view that Einstein is right, yet I still read the Bible. Am I "virtually no one," or should I expect to be swallowed up in short order by the universe as an unsustainable paradox?