Colbert Report

In tonight's Colbert Report we see why Stephen Colbert is a master at what he does and why he has such a large following.

He was talking about polls, what they are and how they are reported and have us a great visual aid. He compared the opinions of the public to meat and the polling process to a meat grinder that chews up all the data and packages in nice neat sausage casings for mass consumption. Then the media takes the poll results and reports them widely enough that they sway public opinion and skew future polls. Thus the poll number "sausages" get fed back into the meat grinder creating the "circle of meat".

A pretty accurate description of how the 24 hour news cycle has to almost feed on itself in order to meat the demands of all that airtime. A poll is commissioned, the results are reported in the way that best fits the bias of the network, public opinion is moved, and a new poll is commissioned that verifies what has already been stated. Nasty stuff to be sure! It always amazes me that it takes a satirist like Colbert to help us see where our media has gone off the rails.

The Colbert Report

Tonight's guest on the Report was Sean Carroll, a theoretical Cosmologist, and he made a statement I had never heard in my life! He was trying to explain how time worked in the universe, time and space are related but you can't take a wrong turn in to yesterday, but his statement about how the universe was formed was astounding.

He claimed that the universe started out very disorganized, got real organized into galaxies and whatnot, and is now headed back in the direction of disorganization through entropy. It was amazing that this well educated man was trying to make the case that the universe moved toward organization on it's own power! How does a natural universe that has to operate under the laws of Thermo-Dynamics move from chaos to order?

It's almost painful to watch very smart people try to answer very difficult questions after removing the one factor that explains how it's possible, namely God! It is only through the work of a powerful Creator marshaling creation and forcing order into chaos by His own sovereign will that explains how our universe is so well organized and designed. Poor scientists, I almost feel sorry for them!