and for any other mods considering upmodding my post above, how about giving that point to the GGP AC instead (who originally asked the question, and suffered the consequences of Slashdot's resident anti-science troll mod crew)?
His non-scientific beliefs are why I am reluctant to buy GSIE for my nephew, although it looks like it would be a suitable book.. If any reader can recommend similar books about getting started in electronics, I'd be interested in their titles.
> Evolution is not science. Do not confuse the two.
It's sad that people think this, and just shows how far we have to go in this country in improving science education. Creationists have shown you a strawman version of evolution that is not science. Unfortunately, few lay people really understand what either evolution or science is.
This isn't that uncommon in the engineering profession actually. Engineers tend to be very conservative and religious; there was even an article a few years ago pointing out that a lot of middle eastern terrorists have (or had, they tend to blow themselves up a lot) engineering backgrounds. Engineers tend to have very black-and-white thinking, and that kind of mentality frequently leads people into fundamentalist religions. The respective mindsets of scientists and engineers are extremely different.
I find it amusing that you question somebody else's publicly known conviction anonymously. Shall we infer that perhaps you lack faith in your own convictions?
I find it amusing that you care whether or not someone fills in a data field with something completely arbitrary and unverifiable. Shall we infer that perhaps you wish ideas to be judged based on the people who propose them?
Why don't you man up, and give your full name, address and phone number?
Also, since when is personal faith in convictions some sort of yardstick of validity? Lee Deforest who supposedly "invented" the triode thought a hard vacuum was bad for tubes. That was his faith too.
Because it shows that just because he's "qualified" to write on hobby-level electronics, doesn't mean much for his extraordinary claims in other fields...
"Although he has no formal academic training in science" from Wiki...
Ooops. But he drew cute LEDs with sperm-photons coming out of them! He launched model rockets at a time when they were very popular and consisted of a cardboard tube with a fireworks motor shoved in one end!
He was barely qualified to write on electronics. He probably thinks of himself
Hey, post links to some of the tutorials you've written and published. Then all the people who were inspired by them to go into a career in EE will post replies, and we'll all know who's really competent!
Or you can continue taking anonymous potshots. Your call.
I don't get the creationism/climate-change-denial perspectives, either. But I can't minimize his contributions as a popularizer of electronics. He doesn't have to be a Tesla or Maxwell on the forefront of research, and he doesn't have to have the medi
I don't get the creationism/climate-change-denial perspectives, either.
I find it interesting that so many Slashdotters have a hard time understanding this; it makes me think that there's very few people here who have worked as engineers (not in IT). Highly conservative thinking is very common among engineers. Engineers are NOT scientists, no matter how much some people try to conflate the two.
You see but you do not observe.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
Ask him about Darwin (Score:1, Insightful)
Mims is well known as a creationist. Ask him why he trusts science when it comes to electronics, but not when it comes to biology.
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Re:Ask him about Darwin (Score:5, Interesting)
Not the AC above, but logged in...
Mims, why do you trust science when it comes to electronics, but not when it comes to biology?
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and for any other mods considering upmodding my post above, how about giving that point to the GGP AC instead (who originally asked the question, and suffered the consequences of Slashdot's resident anti-science troll mod crew)?
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This would be more interesting if you phrased it as ah honest inquiry rather than a passive-aggressive "gotcha".
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That you concluded it is not an honest inquiry says more about you than about the GP or Mims.
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His non-scientific beliefs are why I am reluctant to buy GSIE for my nephew, although it looks like it would be a suitable book.. If any reader can recommend similar books about getting started in electronics, I'd be interested in their titles.
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Get Make: Electronics - Learning Through Discovery [oreilly.com] published by O'Reilly. Books from O'Reilly are DRM-free.
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Get Make: Electronics - Learning Through Discovery [oreilly.com] published by O'Reilly. Books from O'Reilly are DRM-free.
Judging by the cover, that looks like a really good book.
Re:Make: Electronics (Score:2)
Don't need to judge by the cover, you can read an excerpt here [makezine.com].
I recommend the book highly.
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I'm the parent post, thanks for the suggestions. That Make book does indeed look good! I'll check them both out. Thanks again.
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Evolution is not science. Do not confuse the two.
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> Evolution is not science. Do not confuse the two.
It's sad that people think this, and just shows how far we have to go in this country in improving science education. Creationists have shown you a strawman version of evolution that is not science. Unfortunately, few lay people really understand what either evolution or science is.
Evolution is falsifiable [talkorigins.org] observable [talkorigins.org] fact [talkorigins.org] and theory. [talkorigins.org] It is science. [talkorigins.org]
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This isn't that uncommon in the engineering profession actually. Engineers tend to be very conservative and religious; there was even an article a few years ago pointing out that a lot of middle eastern terrorists have (or had, they tend to blow themselves up a lot) engineering backgrounds. Engineers tend to have very black-and-white thinking, and that kind of mentality frequently leads people into fundamentalist religions. The respective mindsets of scientists and engineers are extremely different.
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Mims is well known as a creationist. Ask him why he trusts science when it comes to electronics, but not when it comes to biology.
(bump to get around crackhead downmod)
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I find it amusing that you care whether or not someone fills in a data field with something completely arbitrary and unverifiable. Shall we infer that perhaps you wish ideas to be judged based on the people who propose them?
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I post anonymously because the mods here are perpetually on crack, as the above downmodding of an honest (if a bit snarky) question demonstrates.
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Also, since when is personal faith in convictions some sort of yardstick of validity? Lee Deforest who supposedly "invented" the triode thought a hard vacuum was bad for tubes. That was his faith too.
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"Although he has no formal academic training in science" from Wiki...
Ooops. But he drew cute LEDs with sperm-photons coming out of them! He launched model rockets at a time when they were very popular and consisted of a cardboard tube with a fireworks motor shoved in one end!
He was barely qualified to write on electronics. He probably thinks of himself
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Sounds like the poster boy for the Dunning-Kruger effect...
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Hey, post links to some of the tutorials you've written and published. Then all the people who were inspired by them to go into a career in EE will post replies, and we'll all know who's really competent!
Or you can continue taking anonymous potshots. Your call.
I don't get the creationism/climate-change-denial perspectives, either. But I can't minimize his contributions as a popularizer of electronics. He doesn't have to be a Tesla or Maxwell on the forefront of research, and he doesn't have to have the medi
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Well, it was one of the few you hadn't already gotten around to using.
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I don't get the creationism/climate-change-denial perspectives, either.
I find it interesting that so many Slashdotters have a hard time understanding this; it makes me think that there's very few people here who have worked as engineers (not in IT). Highly conservative thinking is very common among engineers. Engineers are NOT scientists, no matter how much some people try to conflate the two.