I finished reading Intellectual Morons yesterday, and have been trying to decide the best way to recommend this book so that it appeals to the sensibilities of those from our entire spectrum of philosophical ideologies. Because, that’s what the book is about.
“There is no baby universe branching off, as I once thought,” Stephen Hawking told a group of shocked scientists this summer in Dublin. Hawking’s theory of parallel universes and energy-destroying black holes, the wheelchair-bound scientist concluded, was wrong.
When Stephen Hawking’s theories came under attack, he rethought rather than retrenched. Hawking
I put it on my birthday wish list after I saw it in a blog ad last month. Will read and comment.
Comment by Sarah — October 3, 2004 @ 2:02 am
“That’s wrong. Facts and proof get in the way of any ideology if followed blindly”. Bunker you need to place that in 48 point type at the head of your posts from now on. The book sounds like an interesting read. You know by now (I hope) that while I might fall to the left of center, I am not a radical. Like you I want FACTS, and I’ll make up my own mind after I process the facts(must be the military training).
Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — October 3, 2004 @ 8:58 am
Bubba, you should read it. I think it will be an eye-opener for you, as it was for me.
Comment by Bunker — October 3, 2004 @ 9:25 am
Oh great, another book to make time for…Thanks, Bunker! 😉
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