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silverweb

(16,402 posts)
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 04:31 PM Aug 2015

"Large Hadron Collider is the new Tower of Babel"

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I find this article scary and amusing all at once. It seems to me that this christianist author has been into one of my favorite books: Blasphemy, a 2007 novel by Douglas Preston. Some of his phraseology is almost plagaristic. I just re-read the book recently, so it's very fresh in my mind.

This "investigative reporter," who works for Jim Bakker, is blending the roles of the two primary antagonists - one a televangelist and the other a dedicated missionary. The first is cultivating media attention (Hello, Mr. Drew!) as well as his own political and financial ambitions, while the other is a true believer but also insane (Hello, Mr. Drew?).

It's really a riveting story, accentuating fundamentalist religious fanaticism versus scientific research. I highly recommend it for both entertainment and fascinating insights.

I wonder if Mr. Drew's focus on the Hadron collider could result in an ending similar to the book's.... That would sure make news!

Anyway, here's the article that inspired my little spiel:
Christian author: ‘Insane machine’ Large Hadron Collider is the new Tower of Babel that will destroy us all.

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"Large Hadron Collider is the new Tower of Babel" (Original Post) silverweb Aug 2015 OP
Makes you want to laugh, but this person is serious. Intelligent enough to write AllFieldsRequired Aug 2015 #1
OMFG!!!! I thought we were rid of Jim Bakker after his corruption was exposed and..... LongTomH Aug 2015 #2
Um, the only thing that happened in the story of the Tower of Babel is that people no longer tanyev Aug 2015 #3
Jim Baker is a tower of babble. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #4
Sigh. hifiguy Aug 2015 #5

AllFieldsRequired

(489 posts)
1. Makes you want to laugh, but this person is serious. Intelligent enough to write
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 04:38 PM
Aug 2015

reasonably well, yet so ignorant or childish that he uses logic of a child to present the material.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
2. OMFG!!!! I thought we were rid of Jim Bakker after his corruption was exposed and.....
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 04:39 PM
Aug 2015

.......he was sent to prison!!

They just keep coming back, like horror movie zombies!

tanyev

(42,564 posts)
3. Um, the only thing that happened in the story of the Tower of Babel is that people no longer
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 04:46 PM
Aug 2015

understood what others were saying and they stopped building the city. That hardly rises to the level of 'destroy us all!'.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. Sigh.
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 05:35 PM
Aug 2015

If a process could be developed that could be used to turn fundy stupidity into clean energy we would instantly have enough for 100,000 years and most likely warp drive by Festivus 2016.

Stupidity like this should hurt, like a 2 x 4 to the back of the skull hurts.

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