Posted on 12/27/2001 2:31:24 PM PST by Chuckmorse
I'm not sure that her opinions would be exactly the same as those self-proclaimed experts of her philosophy. I guess we will never know...
Thanks for writing the thought provoking article just the same and Happy New Year.
You mean the Objectivists are idiotic because they are advocates of modern science? You people are hilarious! |
Why do some people have such a problem accepting modern science. Is the world flat? Is the earth the center of the universe? Times change, ideas change...
Sometimes we actually (gasp) find out that our old ideas were wrong...
Straw Man fallacy. Most creationists revere the scientific method.
With a well-reasoned title like that, how could it possibly be a subjective screed?
Can anyone bring in a single scientific fact that demonstrates, irrefutably, that the Earth is not at the center of the Universe?
Piekoff now makes his money by enticing the kids who read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged with Objectivist advertising affixed to the back of every copy sold, encouraging them to buy the stuff he sells at the otherwise widely ignored Ayn Rand Institute. Without the money he gets from the teenagers, he'd be on the street.
And he would probably be an Ass't Prof at a community college somewhere if his cousin hadn't been Ayn Rand's lover. He should be paid the same intellectual respect that a typical junior academic receives, and no more.
It isn't infinite.
Can anyone bring in a single scientific fact that demonstrates, irrefutably, that the Earth is not at the center of the Universe?
Of course the earth isn't at the center of the universe. I am.
No they don't. They've just picked up the mistaken idea that they can bash evolution for not following it, so they like to trot it out. If they didn't think they could use it for this purpose they would have nothing to do with this bit of godless science.
Hey ChuckMo,
I think you need to go look up "rational" again because anyone who believes in a metaphysical superbeing is quite a stones throw from rational...but, I know, belief in the aforementioned superbeing feeeeeeeellllllssss alot better.
I wish those "idiot" objectivists would desist in the use of their naturally evolved brains!
When it comes to science, we always find out that our old ideas are wrong.
One objectivist Ubermensch fantasy that got out of hand.
Beware the secular humanist with low self-esteem and sexual hang-ups.
I'm a Fantastic Four(tm) fan myself, and Reed Richards is exactly the kind of hero Ayn would have loved - rational and deliberate.
As far as Rand not being perfect in all her philosophies, well she was human, after all. There was only one perfect person in the world and they crucified him along time ago. If someone is 90% right and 10% wrong, I would not call them 'idiotic.'
I can't find the quote, but there's an interview where someone in her circle said she once told him (paraphrasing) "Evolution might be true, but I don't know; it's only a theory..." Apparently Rand had never studied the subject very much, so she didn't want to come out & make a definitive statement on it.
At any rate, anyone who looks at biology & chemistry objectively really has no choice but to accept the basic tenets of the theory of evolution, IMHO.
Not all old ideas, but rather all ideas based on the scientific method, old or new.
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