Also, I’ve never heard a single scientist claim that they understand everything. That kind of attitude simply does not exist among respectable scientists.

That’s interesting. I had barely heard of ICP before the magnets meme, and I had a hard time understanding all the apparent contempt towards the song and the group. I’m glad to find some people to agree with

There is quite a lot of profanity in these lyrics, but it seems to me that some popular “songs” I can hear on the radio contain just as much profanity, and a lot less of wisdom. Sure, it’s not worded in a very subtle way, but it conveys its core ideas very clearly. And at least they don’t seem to take themselves too seriously.

Also, most of the critics focus on how dumb you have to be to believe “magnets are powered by magic”. The best explanation I know of describes magnetism as a consequence of plain electrostatic forces when applied to particles moving at relativistic speed. Magnetic fields would be nothing but an illusion, a mathematical tool that let us understand this behavior without having to wander into the strange land of relativity. Yes, I’m sure every 3rd grader can understand that, magnets are so simple, duh.

Now, if our ICP friends did drop out of high school, I may understand their mistrust of “scientists”; most of the science teachers I had during school lacked a deep understanding of anything beyond what was written in the book, the books often oversimplified things beyond the reasonable, and any embarassing questions would be met with disdain and dismissal.

The real scientists, however, are probably the first aware that our whole universe is a fucking amazing miracle, so to speak. Seeing the beauty in nature, in mathematics, in science, is a requirement to keep a sane mind.

Lastly, The religious debate is pointless, as science and religion deal with completely orthogonal questions. I do know a couple of (renewed) scientists who believe in a god (of course, it’s not your typical obscurantist, nonsensical mass religion).

Science, true science, happily acknowledges that there are things that are not yet known in the universe, and has just as happily gone to work on trying to figure out what those particular things are, even if the research goes beyond their lifetime. They are not sloppy and do not look for the easy way out. Anyone who has done so is thrown out and his work is retracted. Just ask Dr. Andrew Wakefield.

As for Jeff Pine, it is no “Miracle” that ICP have careers. It’s called hard work. They’re too busy killing it in the real world to be participating in mindless internet memes like you are.

It’s also obvious that you didn’t even read the article. Ironic how you’re making fun of ICP for being ignorant, when you can’t even follow basic internet etiquette.