Scientists....your joking right?

Question

Many years ago, the art of "cloning" started to be used in movies. Scientists researched this and stated that acutally cloning a human being is impossible and could never be done.
Many years back, the thought of life on other planets was proven to be stupid and idiotic by scientists.
Scientists studied our world and thought it was flat, and were sure that we could easily fall of the side.
Scientists made a claim that no animal can be both sexes. They are either female or male.
Scientists WAAAAAY back said that twins have a 98% chance of dying in birth and that siamese twins can never make it alive...

Hmmm....First, cloning has already been done. The possibility of other life on different planets is getting bigger and bigger. The world is NOT flat. Animals can be either or sex. Frogs for example have the ability to be both. And twins and siamese twins are all around us....

You going to let those people tell you their theories as to how we came out and actually listen to them?

and if you need proof on anything I said, go up to the top left of your screen and type something in and search for it.
You'll find it. I did.

Answer 1

Gomer, YOU have proven that life on THIS planet is stupid and idiotic.

wait a minute, the word PISS is in the bible? I'll be danged, i guess it's pretty hip after all.

Answer 2

Scientists say a lot of stupid things. Science doesn't.
Assuming scientists did indeed make all the claims you mention (it'd be nice to see some sources so we know you're not just rephrasing things to your advantage), that doesn't mean that their claims were scientific.

In regard to cloning, the only reference I can find that seems anything like what you've written is to scientists claiming that current cloning methods may not be effective for cloning primates. That's entirely true, and not really all that similar to what you say in your question.
I'm not even going to bother looking up a reference for "the thought of life on other planets was proven to be stupid and idiotic". That assertion isn't even remotely scientific, you've either made it up or it reflects the personal opinion of one or more scientists. In either case it doesn't help your argument at all.
The realisation that the Earth is not flat predates the scientific method. It was never the common opinion among 'scientists' that the Earth was flat. Either you haven't researched that or you're trying to mislead people.
I can't find any reference to scientists claiming no animal can be both sexes.
Depending on when it was said, it's quite possible that twins did have a very high mortality rate during birth and until recently conjoined twins (they're not all from Siam, you see) almost always died during birth. So the validity of this point depends on when exactly "WAAAAAY back" is, and what exactly the scientists said.

Answer 3

Which scientists stated that actually cloning a human being is impossible and could never be done? Which scientists made a claim that no animal can be both sexes.? They are either female or male. Which scientists WAAAAAY back said that twins have a 98% chance of dying in birth and that siamese twins can never make it alive? Just curious if you know of what you speak or are you simply generalizing the earlier misconceptions of mankind. You see, over the centuries, new scientific techniques have been developed that better help us to know the world around us each day. Science, of course, evolves as we discover and evaluate new evidence. I suppose you find that difficult to understand since you rely on religious publications written by delusional humans thousands of years ago.

Answer 4

I'd love to see what scientist said cloning is impossible. Even if he/she did it was based on the information at hand at the time he/she said that.

Life on other planets was "proven" to be stupid and idiotic by scientists? Your use of the word leads me to believe you don't even know what the word means. The possibility of life on other planets is not increasing. It's exactly the same as it's always been.

There were no real scientists when the world was declared flat. Many astronomers (astronomers are scientists) knew the world wasn't flat when the map makers were still drawing it as if it were. And besides, who discovered the world *wasn't* flat? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't the Middle Ages version of Billy Graham. The guys who discovered that were looking into a scientific instrument, not a bible.

Science didn't make the claim that all animals must be either male or female. I'm pretty sure the bible says that though. (Remember Noah?)

Your straw man is weak and intellectually dishonest. It's so bad that I am beginning to think you're an agent provocateur.

Answer 5

But eventually Scientists did these things, I believe in most of the cases you are talking about these scientists were Christian scientists? Scientists have theories. Theories are nonconslusive. Only Christians tell you that the Earth was created in 6 days and at the end of one of those days God made the stars? So it takes a day to make the sun and moon but billions of stars can be made in a few hours? Also when did this happen? 6000 years ago? How would we be able to see the light from stars millions of light years away already? It is Christians that keep science from going further in the United States and conservative politicians...Maybe we need war more than a cure for cancer (BTW they also say there is no cure for cancer but keep working for one everyday.) A few Scientists you may want to read about...Aristotle, Darwin, oh also look up the name Paul Hill add the keyword "abortion" then tell me what Fundamentalist Christians are capable of and ask yourself, is Christianity good or bad for our humanity?

Answer 6

It was scientist who were claiming the world was round, however many of those were exterminated during the inquisition for challenging the commonly held belief in a flat world.

Cloning has been around for a few hundred years, it originated in plants (which are quite easy to clone). The idea of cloning has always fascinated science however without an complete understanding of the human genotype there have been obstacles.

I am not even sure where you are getting the twin birth number or from what century that even dates back to. However you can note a marked decrease in infant mortality over the past few thousand years as we have began to understand gestation and birth much more.

The study of extraterrestrials and the universe has been around for millia and predates modern Christianity.

Science is a quest for knowledge and is continually expanding, not understanding a concept 2000 years ago does not make it invalid, it just means it took some time for us to wrap our little scientific noggins around the ideas.

I would relalky like to see how far you get without science as it made pretty much everything you use in daily life possibly. THat is providing you even made it through your infant years as science and medicine has provided you with the vaccines and treatments for ailments that would have otherwise killed you.

Answer 7

>>Scientists studied our world and thought it was flat, and were sure that we could easily fall of the side.

Source? The ancient Greeks knew that the earth was round.

>>Many years back, the thought of life on other planets was proven to be stupid and idiotic by scientists.

Source?

>>Scientists made a claim that no animal can be both sexes.

Source?

>>Scientists WAAAAAY back said that twins have a 98% chance of dying in birth and that siamese twins can never make it alive

Source? Scientists or doctors?

Answer 8

Science isn't religion. Science is science.

Religion teaches "infallible truths" about the nature of existence according to faith and adherence to a belief system. Each belief system is different. An native Australian has a spiritual truth in the Dreamtime. A conservative Christian has a belief in the New Testament. You get my drift, I hope, but each faith is relative.

Science is a different animal. It is constantly evolving in the search for more knowledge. Science doesn't claim to have the same answers it had when a question was first raised and not researched without unbiased fact. Comparing the rules of science to faith is like comparing baseball to football. Two different ballgames

Answer 9

OK I will let you in on a little secret. Science is the are of taking the EVIDENCE that you have and making a THEORY of it. From there you try to DISPROVE the THEORY to test its stability. If you cannot DISPROVE the THEORY then it holds till it can be DISPROVED. All the things you listed were simply THEORIES based upon the EVIDENCE that they had at the time. They were DISPROVED yes. but there were also lots of THEORIES that were not DISPROVED. Do you believe in gravity? I think it has become quite a well know fact and no longer a theory?

Answer 10

Just because "science" makes mistakes, it doesn't mean it's a load of crap or most scientists are irresponsible. Science is a learning process: It is not perfect. We don't know many things, but a lot of people are doing something about it.

As for scientists thinking that the world is flat, it was the Church who constantly imposed on science. The life of Galileo is a good example.

Not to pick on you or anything, but which "scientists" are you referring to?

I'd rather listen to people who give me knowledge and allow me to think, than to people who smother me with blind faith.

Answer 11

Are you aware that as science advances, more knowledge is gained? Yes, there were many beliefs that science used to hold that have been proven false. Those beliefs were held because of the limited knowledge of the times. Evolution, o the other hand, rather than having been shown to be wrong with increased knowledge, has been even more firmly established as correct. Can you give even a suggestion of what new knowledge may come along to show that evolution is incorrect?