So what if science works in the 'real world?' That's like saying gasoline works in internal combustion engines.
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Hey, this was taken out of context. He said
"So what if science works in the "real world?" That's like saying gasoline works in internal combustion engines. It's still undrinkable."
He's still an idiot, but his simile made sense.
Welcome to the Real World
Also, Whisper:
He is right about that: The hominid brain can only learn certain scientific subjects (most notably relativity, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, higher-dimensional mathematics, logic, and statistics and probability) with great difficulty; therefore, we may consider these subjects 'undrinkable'. However, that does not make these subjets false; indeed, were I to design a sentient species, I would attempt to give them an inherent understanding of these fields (that is, when introduced to these subjects, they would find them intuitive rather than counter-intuitive).
Whispers right, the entire sentence shows his bias and makes it a true simile.
His bias being :Science bad
And "works in the 'real world" being,
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Pedantic Speaker, given your handle I doubt you'll mind if I nitpick a bit. The subjects you mentioned can be absorbed, to ones benefit, with a little effort. Gasoline, if I'm not mistaken, triggers an uncontrollable gag reflex and provides more nutrients. So relativity and so forth would be more akin to maple syrup, or perhaps very bitter medicine.
tl;dr version: Albert's simile still sucks.
"So what if science works in the 'real world?' That's like saying gasoline works in internal combustion engines."
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Some say, that he has no concept of religion. And that he drinks petrol. All we know is... he's called The Stig!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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