Louie comments on "Target audience" size for the Less Wrong sequences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Louie 19 November 2010 03:33:01AM 3 points [-]

My girlfriend is a weak Buddhist/Atheist (who gives a 60% chance to "ghosts exist") and she doesn't think evolution is correct. I asked her why and she said because it's not proven. She said she read a biology professor's book in Taiwan several years ago that says they are "missing evidence" and so that makes the theory invalid. Also, she points out that since it's a theory and not a law, it's not true yet. The evolution thing is kind of extra funny to me because she dragged me to a lame dinosaur museum a few days ago where we watched a really basic movie about how evolution happened. Her take is that it's just a silly story scientist made up to feel smart.

And she has a degree in engineering and went to the best magnet school in Taiwan for high school where she concentrated on math and physics.

Comment author: HonoreDB 19 November 2010 04:28:51AM 0 points [-]

So, where does she think all this complexity came from?

Comment author: Manfred 19 November 2010 12:37:44PM 1 point [-]

Ghosts.

(sorry!)