Skeptic Project

>> His talks and seminars delve into the heart of reality – the universe, ancient history, particle physics, sacred geometries, mathematics, consciousness.

Throwing the sacred geometry stuff? And the "consciousness" just makes me think of that universal consciousness bullshit.

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I read their website for a bit and at first it sounded as if they were some scientific group trying to find the elusive theory of everything, but I couldn't really figure out what they were all about then I read this.

Definitely crack :D

Nothing wrong with them but it turns out they arent a scientific group, they are a new age group.

When they talk about a unified theory of everything they are not talking about the scientific goal of the unification of Newtonian and quantum physics :)

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Demonstrating the parallels between this theory and ancient codes found in documents and monuments, Nassim weaves a tale which may prove to be one of the most important discoveries of our time.

Have you ever wondered why those science classes were at all important?

Were you ever curious about the mysteries of Ancient Egypt?

What about the modern mystery of crop circles?

These DVDs explore all of the above as well as the following ::

DVD 1 :: The Search for the Fundamental Pattern Dimensions of Geometry, Chemistry, Scaling Law, Biology, Principle of Unification, Pyramids

DVD 2 :: From Micro to Macro – Unifying the Field Geometry, Structure of the Vacuum, Crop circles

DVD 3 :: Everything is a Black “Whole” Ancient Egypt, Archeology, Black Wholes/White Wholes

DVD 4 :: Unlocking the Mystery – The Future is in Our Hands Bible, The Arc of the Covenant, Knights Templar, Emmanuel's Tomb, Kabbalah, Tree of Life Decoded

This is not science.

New Age groups like to mix science with their bullshit and they like Quantum physics because they are under the mistaken understanding that Quantum physics means anything is possible. Their scientifically illiterate believers love it because it means they think they have scientific support.

Anyway this is why you have then not only talking about "Chemistry, Biology" and "Unified field theory" but also "crop circles" and "Pyramids" or "The Arc of the Covenant, Knights Templar, Emmanuel's Tomb, Kabbalah, Tree of Life Decoded"

See?

Aaron, it seems you have much to learn about the world of woo ;-)

Ed --

Yeah, exactly my impression! New agers love to throw around words like "quantum" to make their stuff sound "scientifical". :-) Just read anything by Chopra and his quantum woo.

Speaking of Chopra, here is Dawkins making him look stupid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FaXD_igv4

Ed, I have a very smart friend who thinks Richard Dawkins talks a lot of false science. What do you think?

Aaron --

Can your friend give some specifics of the "false science" Dawkins is talking?

I just think Dawkins is a prick.

Ed, I have a very smart friend who thinks Richard Dawkins talks a lot of false science. What do you think?

While Dawkins' is, as Matt says, a bit of a prick in the way he comes accross, I don't see anything he says as bad science.

So yes, I'd love to know what things he is talking about.

He is smart, but you can say religion is a sham without being such an asshole.

I like Dawkins myself. Personally, it's Hitchens that grates on my nerves :-)

I don't think anyone is trying to deny that Dawkins is a brilliant scientist. I just happen to think the guy's a prick. Nothing more.

I tried to watch a few nassim youtubes but I after a few minutes of listening I realized I haven't heard him say anything that makes any sense yet, jesus. It's just a bunch of vague new agey words strung together.

I'm with Ed. I just don't think Dawkins handles himself well as a public speaker.

That says nothing about his abilities as a scientist or his level of intelligence, neither of which I would dispute.

Sometimes Hitchens is okay :)