Because my other reply may seem rude, I want to make my point a different way: by giving a reply to calcsam that looks to Mormons, as his response looks to me (and probably several others here).
Why, this sure is the best response I’ve ever seen about this issue. I whole-heartedly thank you, and let me just say, I totally support Mormonism where Mormonism is good for America.
Now, all of my anticipations are sort of about “reality”, so when I look at reality, I expect certain things to happen based on being a rationalist rather than a Mormon. Let’s go over some of those things I expect to be true if I’m correct.
When I think about a problem, I expect to come closer to finding an answer. I will expect to occasionally come to a correct answer. This feeling has been described as an “aha!” moment or a “that’s funny...” moment. “America, apple pie, science, greatness, courage, applause lights.”
As society follows methods similar to what rationalists do, I expect to see them produce technology that will satisfy our goals. I expect engineers and scientists to come up with land vehicles better than previous generations had. I expect them to find more and better energy that was accessible before.
I expect that these things will not just happen in America, even though she’s the greatest nation on earth but in a way that doesn’t offend non-Americans, but elsewhere too. I expect that all over the world engineers will be able to produce technologies that make difficult work less difficult.
I expect that when others abandon these rationalist ideas and so don’t have curiousity or clear thinking, they won’t understand how technology works. I expect they’ll be unable to troubleshoot and fix things when they have minor operational breakdowns. I expect that R&D arms that don’t follow rationalist ideas won’t turn out good technology. So rationalism gives me more accurate expectations than Mormonism.
I could list some more technologies that work, but that should be enough to show beyond a shadow of a doubt Mormonism is completely wrong and incapable of producing technology.
Because my other reply may seem rude, I want to make my point a different way: by giving a reply to calcsam that looks to Mormons, as his response looks to me (and probably several others here).
Why, this sure is the best response I’ve ever seen about this issue. I whole-heartedly thank you, and let me just say, I totally support Mormonism where Mormonism is good for America.
Now, all of my anticipations are sort of about “reality”, so when I look at reality, I expect certain things to happen based on being a rationalist rather than a Mormon. Let’s go over some of those things I expect to be true if I’m correct.
When I think about a problem, I expect to come closer to finding an answer. I will expect to occasionally come to a correct answer. This feeling has been described as an “aha!” moment or a “that’s funny...” moment. “America, apple pie, science, greatness, courage, applause lights.”
As society follows methods similar to what rationalists do, I expect to see them produce technology that will satisfy our goals. I expect engineers and scientists to come up with land vehicles better than previous generations had. I expect them to find more and better energy that was accessible before.
I expect that these things will not just happen in America, even though she’s the greatest nation on earth but in a way that doesn’t offend non-Americans, but elsewhere too. I expect that all over the world engineers will be able to produce technologies that make difficult work less difficult.
I expect that when others abandon these rationalist ideas and so don’t have curiousity or clear thinking, they won’t understand how technology works. I expect they’ll be unable to troubleshoot and fix things when they have minor operational breakdowns. I expect that R&D arms that don’t follow rationalist ideas won’t turn out good technology. So rationalism gives me more accurate expectations than Mormonism.
I could list some more technologies that work, but that should be enough to show beyond a shadow of a doubt Mormonism is completely wrong and incapable of producing technology.
That about covers it...