Next time you talk to your god
Many christians, muslims and other fundamentalists claim to talk to their god quite often, they always claim it's a two-way communication. Here's my usual reply. Next time you talk to your god, why don't you ask him about the proof of Goldbach conjecture, or how to predict protein folding. Write it down, even if you don't understand it. Show it to us.
Posted Jun 9, 2011, 5:48 PM UTC
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That sounds a lot like a Carl Sagan quote I've heard.
I'd be interested in reading it, if you can find it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/hmet9/carl_sagan_trolls_people_who_claim_to_have_been/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/saganbur.htm (Ctrl + F "Goldbach")
Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in 'contact' with aliens. I am invited to ask them anything. And over the year's I've prepared a little list of questions. The aliens are very advanced remember. So I ask things like, 'Please provide a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem'. I write out the simple theorem equation with the exponents. It's a simulating exercise to think of questions to which no human today knows the answers, but where a correct answer would be recognised as such. It's even more challenging to formulate such questions in fields other than mathematics. Perhaps we should hold a contest and collect the best responses in '10 Questions to Ask an Alien'.