2010 February 19 | The Armchair Antichrist

Anti-Science on Campus

On February 19, 2010, In Answers to Stupid People, Mind and Soul, Misconceptions About Atheism, Science, University, By The Armchair Antichrist

Our campus freethought club is organizing an interfaith event. So, we’re trying to get a professor in a relevant field to make a presentation. This is one of the e-mail responses to our invitation.

Thank you so much for your invitation. I appreciate Dr. Koppedrayer recommending me.

I just checked your webpage and read your mandate. I cannot imagine that I have anything to contribute to your goal.

In fact, I am wondering why you would host an “interfaith event” at all, given your mandate?

Mandate: Our goal is to make the non-theistic world as acceptable and understood as possible so that people everywhere realize that it is more than possible to live a moral and ethical life without religion and the supernatural. We also strive to promote scientific awareness, education, and defend secular values.

I am an Indigenous woman, I believe that our people are the greatest “scientists” the world has ever known. We were throughly immersed in empirical research and education when Europe was floundering in the dark ages.
Through our research we believe that spirit is real and exists in all living things.

I suspect that western science equates our beliefs with the “supernatural” since they have not “proven” this. We knew that all living things were related, were connected long before western science “discovered” this fact.

I am not much for debating though, so I think I should decline your invitation.

Thank you so much, Jean Becker

Jean Becker
Elder in Residence
Faculty of Social Work
Wilfrid Laurier University

I would never have expected such ignorant words would come from a professor from my university.

I’m sorry but indigenous people were not scientists. So, calling them the “greatest” scientists is just outright idiocy. The scientific method which is the hallmark of modern science was developed by Francis Bacon in the 1620s. I highly doubt that indigenous people had any parallel to that.

So, it goes without saying that the claim that indigenous people were immersed in empirical research and education is also ridiculous. If indigenous people were so far ahead of Europe in the Dark Ages how did they fall so far behind?

I would really like to see this so called “research” that demonstrates the existence of this so-called spirit which exists in all living things. Please forgive me if I don’t have much faith that such “research” exists. (note: Shamanism does not count as empirical research)

Western science does not make judgment on the supernatural as it only deals with what is natural and real. Your religious beliefs are supernatural simply because they make claims beyond the natural world.

What now? Indigenous people discovered evolution long before Western science? No, unfortunately the belief that all living things are spiritually connected does not count as evolution. Evolution is a comprehensive theory which explains a multitude of natural phenomena and predicts many more.

I’m also not surprised that you’re not much for debating. Anyone who tried to defend your silly beliefs would be too.

To be ignorant of science is no crime. But, such an anti-science stance is an offence to academia. I have nothing else to say other than that you my dear woman are a tool.

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