Wisdom of the Idiots; part 28

Wisdom of the Idiots; part 28; Competing Viewpoints; The Age of Reason & A Question


Here's everything you need to know about the Big Bang Theory in ten words:-
First there was nothing. Nothing exploded. Then there was everything.
The rest is history.

Some alternative viewpoints:-
God created everything with a series of acts of magic in six days and Mohammed says the world is flat and sits on the back of a whale, although Terry Pratchett says that the world stands on the backs of four giant elephants which stand on the back of Great Atuin.
Ophion, the World Snake, laid an egg and it cracked and everything came out of that.
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The available empirical evidence tends to support the nothing to everything Big Bang theory.
Some other available evidence tends to suggest that we are still in the grip of The Enlightenment. The centuries long battle between the forces of dark superstition of religion and the clear minds of rational western intellectuals is indicated as coming to a crisis point. At stake is the future of science and technology; individual freedom of mind and spirit. Atavism claws at the heels of progress, it dilutes human achievement, and clings to primitive, outmoded and contradictory beliefs.

Can a civilization survive the replacement of the people who created it by people of other races, religions, and civilizations?
Ask the Native Americans.
Musashi.


In Wisdom of the Idiots; part 29, we discover the difference between a Mongol chief and a German Philosopher: Ghengiz Khan and Immanuel Kant and we attend the opening of the first French Impressionist casino, Monet Toulouse.