"Senior Editor" <senior.editor@future.worlds.N0SPMmag> wrote in message
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What does it take to be a scientist in the 21st century?
First you must learn to obey the following set of rules:

 1) I renounce all faith in God. Anyone who believes in
    God is an idiot. The only smart people in the world
    are atheists. The only true scientists are atheists.

Says who?

 2) Jesus Christ is a fairy tale concocted by religious
    fanatics to brainwash and control the masses. There
    isn't an ounce of truth in the entire bible. Anyone
    who believes in such fairy tales is mentally insane.

Says who?

 3) Even though we know that the Catholics are nutcases,
    by sheer coincidence, we also dictate that civiliza-
    tions date back no further than only seven thousand
    years or so. There never was a global flood like in
    the "Genesis" fairy tale, and the world's sealevels
    have always been about where they are today--for at
    least the last several million years or so. Asinine
    rumors of "sunken cities" are pure hogwash.

And Min would know about hogwash!

There's

    not a shred of evidence to support such foolishness,
    and certified charlatans like "Edgar Cayce" or "Nos-
    tradamus" were nothing but liars and frauds.

Well, random chance dictates he'd get at least one right.

Anyone

    who believes that human civilizations date back for
    hundreds of thousands or even millions of years are
    delusional freaks who deserve to be lobotomized.

Volunteering anytime soon?

 It

    is mandatory that scientists reject all such lunacy,
    or you will be excommunicated from our fine coterie
    of scientific atheists. Hold the party line or else!

Who says?

 4) Since "God" is nothing but a fairy tale for foolish
    nitwits, the universe and everything in it happened
    only by random chance. Humans are only animals like
    any other animal, they just happen to have superior
    intelligence over most other creatures--at least we
    atheists do. Of course, religious kooks haven't any
    real intelligence to speak of. They're all retarded.

Speaking from personal experience, obviously.

 5) I renounce any and all forms of independent thought.

No evidence you ever had any.

    The only thoughts worthy of consideration are those
    which the scientific community of atheists agree on.
    Any scientific research which contradicts the party
    line will be summarily ignored and debunked. If you
    fail to renounce any such unauthorized work, you're
    going to be blackballed, and the only job you'll be
    able to hold will be washing dishes at a truck stop.

Who says?

 6) More than a third of a century ago, while Nixon was
    President, NASA sent astronauts around ONE THOUSAND
    times further into space than any manned spacecraft
    has ever been able to go before or since. Six times
    they made it all the way to the Moon and back--with
    no casualties, and not a sign of radiation sickness
    in any of the crew members. Don't you even dare say
    otherwise, since if you do, you'll be called a kook.

Again, you are clearly talking from personal experience.

 7) The great pyramids at the al-Gizeh plateau were not
    built by intelligent people, but by ignorant slaves
    under the heavy-handed whips of the Pharoah's goons.

Who says?

    Only crude primitive construction methods were used,
    and they were built more recently than cir. 3000 BC.

Let's see the video.

    Today we could build even better pyramids if we wan-
    ted to, but we don't want to

There's the Luxor in Vegas.

 and that's why haven't.

    Anyone who believes what kooks like Edgar Cayce and
    Ed Leedskalnin said about the pyramids, then you're
    also a kook...you'll never find work as a scientist.

*You* certainly won't.

 8) There's no such thing as "ETs" or alien "UFOs".

If you have decided it's an alien spaceship, then by definition it's no
longer *unidentified*, so no, there are no alien UFOs. There may be UFOs
that are alien. As to ETs, hell, you could buy them off the toy rack not so
long ago.

Any-

    one who claims to have seen a UFO mistook Venus for
    a flying saucer. If you believe in ETs visiting our
    planet even once then you must be absoultely insane.
    Only kooks believe such fairy tales. Are you a kook?

This is your life story.

 9) Only since the days of Copernicus has science known
    about the sidereal orbits of planets. Those who say
    that ancient astronomers could see the planets move
    against the starry background of Earth's caelestial
    firmament is a liar and a fraud.

This post should have been labeled "The Autobiography of Min"

Everyone knows the

    planets were thought of only as "wanderers" because
    ancient astronomers couldn't really see the planets
    move over days, weeks, months and years against the
    night sky.

This is clearly contrary to the established evidence. Please provide your
verifiable references.

Obviously these ancient astronomers such

    as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Mayans, et al, these
    reptilian-brained oafs couldn't think, count or rea-
    son.

Don't be so hard on yourself, Min.

Just because ancient astronomers commonly knew

    the sidereal order of the planets from the Moon out
    to Pluto, this is nothing more than odd coincidence.
    They were superstitious morons who believed in gods
    and life after death, and other ridiculous nonsense.
    Anyone who says the ancients could think, count and
    track the motion of the planets belongs on deathrow.

Volunteering?

10) Finally, if you want to work in a scientific profes-
    sion, then you'd better learn how to "play the game"
    by just playing along. It's okay if you want to sup-
    port the party line. Do that and you'll fit in. But
    don't make waves or rock the boat. Atheists are not
    capable of defending our position. That's why we re-
    ly solely on "peer review" for moral support. Other-
    wise we'd be required to actually defend our ideals
    with facts instead of our routine baseless rhetoric;

Something you've been repeatedly invited to do, and have failed.

    and if it came to that--naturally--we'd be defeated.
    So be forewarned, you would-be scientist. We're not
    able to scientifically defend our positions. That's
    why we've defined science as only what we say it is.
    There's no science beyond the approval of our venal
    whims. Money decides what is science and what isn't.
    Independent thought is prohibited. It's that simple.

Daniel Joseph Min

Known net kook.

Someone who has something intelligent to say and can back up their claims
doesn't need to keep trying to get around filters by constantly using new
email addresses.

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