He was killed, then came back to life to save humanity. He is alive and lives in the sky with the Angels and the man with white hair.
He was my childhood hero, but I no longer have faith that he is ‘real’.
His name is Captain Scarlet. He lives on Cloudbase with the Angels, Colonel White, Captain Blue and other members of Spectrum who defend Earth from the attacks of the Mysterons.
Those who deny scientific evidence concerning issues such as the age of the Universe and the Earth, evolution including the existence of dinosaurs should be denied access to other achievements of science such as the following:
- air travel and motor vehicles,
- television (terrestrial/satellite),
- telephones, the internet, computers,
- radios, all electrical appliances, electric lighting,
- electronic supermarket tills,
- food, clothing and other items manufactured by technological methods,
- or transported by motorised transportation including magazines, books and newspapers,
- medicines (developed by scientists) and surgery (by physicians with scientific knowledge),
- money – coins and bank notes produced by machinery,
- electric guitar or other instrument, microphone, refrigerator, microwave oven,
- XBox360, PS3, Wii,
- toothbrushes or other battery-powered hand-held items.
In other words, those who deride science should not use/purchase/consume any devices that science has developed, or items that have been manufactured, transported or otherwise interacted with science: anything with an internal combustion engine, a motor, a battery, a bulb, a transistor, light emitting diode, liquid crystal display, cathode ray tube, etc, etc.
If those who denied scientific evidence adhered to their principles, they should not be able to promote their ideologies through methods which utilise science and technology. Religious fundamentalists should not promote creationism (or any other messages whatsoever) via the Internet, nor use mobile phones or air flight in their terrorist activities. In doing so, they contradict themselves and their ideals.
Science is knowledge gained through testing and evidence. To dismiss the method as evidence for some knowledge should mean denying scientific methods altogether.
Denying scientific methods and knowledge would be to deny the existence of television and the aeroplane.
Therefore, those who choose to ignore the geological evidence for the age of the Earth should forego the right to watch TV or fly on an aeroplane. To not follow the example is hypocrisy.We call for International Law to allow only those who accept the findings of science to be able to enjoy the full advances of technology, and ban fundamentalists from doing so.
In response, we will accept letters from fundamentalists written in quill and ink and transported by horse or donkey to any normal person who may then copy the message to the Web. We do not deny the right of fundamentalists to learn and become enlightened through education and then go on to enjoy the modern era and listen to CDs and make telephone calls. Some may become fascinated by the delights of the so-called ‘digital watch’.
Taken from Facebook group Fundamentalists Should Be Banned From Using Technology, authored by me (with minor edits)
Initially, this seemed not to fit with current scientific/historical evidence. So we did some theorising in order to sustain our primary concept.
We now think that time itself was compressed in the beginning, in a ‘Big Boom’ event which squashed time so that eons were squeezed into seconds and the Earth was formed by matter rapidly collapsing onto an ‘invisible pink hole‘ phenomena, causing the increase in chronological acceleration.
We do not deny Darwinian Evolution by means of natural selection. Nor do we deny the scientific method – except for that which may contradict our view on the world being 209 years old. But we do think this may be taken into account considering our ‘time-crush‘ theory.
We do not wish our view to be taught in schools, but think it would be rather nice if it were incorporated into nursery rhymes for pre-school children.
Therefore, we are now living in the year 209! YEA!
Our acronymic motto, Y.E.A., is synonymous with the colloquialism of the English word ‘yes’: ‘yea[h]‘ – the most positive word South of the North Pole*.
Let me hear you say ‘YEA!’.
(We are expecting a century bug in our devices in the year 300, when conventional computers will click over to the year 2100. For those worried about their digital watches, we are sure a sticker will be available on eBay nearer the time. There is no need for widespread panic, please..)
*(Unless a group starts up called ‘Young Earth Secularists’, which would leave us more than a little peeved.)
