How Progressive Are You?

[derspiess]

I dunno.  They don't want any of those dark-sided things near them.  Presumably, any science that doesn't agree with Genesis is dark-sided.

Btw, it's dork-sided

I just assumed that she was from one of those parts of the US where they don't speak properly.

She is (Louisiana).  Just looks funnier to type it the way she says it.

[Habsburg]

242.  My fiscal score would put me conservative however.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

346. most of the questions were kinda loaded for one extreme or the other imho.

[Hansmeister]

52.  I think that almost makes me a commie.

[dps]

For the record, I'm an experimental/observational astrophysicist (not a cosmologist, that was Hami, that shit's out of my league), specifically I study emission nebulae (big clouds of photo-ionized gas, like the Orion Nebula, as distinguished from gas that's only visible because of reflected starlight, like the blue glow around the Pleides). I also have taught (and certainly will again teach) astronomy courses.

So do you do a lot of work with star formation and early stellar evolution?

I assure you that if the conservative movement had its way, I would have no job. Modern conservativism has no use for pure science (and has no problem spreading that message through technology made possible BY pure science, of course). And yes, a certain subgroup of them would probably go further than that considering that I'm an unrepentant "evolutionist" that teaches the big bang theory and global warming science.

I think you're mixing the vocal Reagan-style Christian movement with the low-key Nixon-style conservatives.  Conservatism has a long, proud history of technocracy.

Most conservatives that I know, even religious conservatives, don't really have a problem with "hard" sciences like physics or geology, but are suspicious of the social sciences.  Personally, space exploration and pure science are among the few things I am actually in favor of the federal government spending money on.

[derspiess]

52.  I think that almost makes me a commie.

You beat my score

[katmai]

52.  I think that almost makes me a commie.

You beat my score

P.S. so hans thinks you're a commie!

[vinraith]

Vinnie, I know this may sound cheesy, but thanks for your efforts in expanding human knowledge, no matter how big or small they may be in the big picture. I haven't taken an Astronomy course since high school, but it is very interesting to learn about. I hold scientists in high regard. 

Thanks Funk, I really appreciate that. For what it's worth, I feel the same way about members of the military.

We're missing too many smilies.

[vinraith]

I think you're mixing the vocal Reagan-style Christian movement with the low-key Nixon-style conservatives.  Conservatism has a long, proud history of technocracy.

Which is why I keep saying "modern" conservatives, there doesn't seem to me much of the old guard left.

[vinraith]

Most conservatives that I know, even religious conservatives, don't really have a problem with "hard" sciences like physics or geology, but are suspicious of the social sciences.  Personally, space exploration and pure science are among the few things I am actually in favor of the federal government spending money on.

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

[garbon]

Vinnie, I know this may sound cheesy, but thanks for your efforts in expanding human knowledge, no matter how big or small they may be in the big picture. I haven't taken an Astronomy course since high school, but it is very interesting to learn about. I hold scientists in high regard. 

Thanks Funk, I really appreciate that. For what it's worth, I feel the same way about members of the military.

We're missing too many smilies.

Yeah like one to mimic vomiting.

[FunkMonk]

Yeah like one to mimic vomiting.

You can make do with  and  >

[Caliga]

195/400, or "conservative".

[Maladict]

355/400

[Barrister]

I think you're mixing the vocal Reagan-style Christian movement with the low-key Nixon-style conservatives.  Conservatism has a long, proud history of technocracy.

Which is why I keep saying "modern" conservatives, there doesn't seem to me much of the old guard left.

Quite honestly when I go to meetings of the Conservative Party of Canada, I meet maybe a handful of biblical literalists - the overwhelming majority are big science supporters...