Dancing in the Rain(forest)

New declaration of Benedictus Decimus Sixtus about Science:
"[Science is dominated by] demonstrability by experimentation. The fundamental questions of man, like to live and to die, are thus excluded from the domain of rationality, and left to the sphere of subjectivity. Hence, at the end, disappears the question that originated the universities, the one about the true and the good, substituted by the one about realizability". (English translation is mine, I take full responsibility for any error).
How he dare to speak about Science? Science IS experimentation! The only demonstrability IS by experimentation, the old, true, solid empiric method of Galileo&Co. How do you expect to work scientifically without experiments? Reading the Book?
Without experiment we don't have any instrument to discriminate the true from the untrue (or the probable from the unprobable). Without experiment we are prey of the worst relativism: everybody can say whatever he pleases and nobody can verify his claims. Given the battle against "moral relativism" that mr.Pope is fighting, I can hope in some of his comprehension? Yeah, apart from the fact that I fully endorse the "moral relativism" that Ratzinger stigmatizes as Evil. By symmetry, should I expect that mr.Pope endorse the "factual relativism" that we scientists dread so much?
So, given that the Catholic gerarchy dare to speak about Science, it is at least fair that a scientist like me speak about catholicism. Here's my symmetric reply:
"Catholicism is dominated by demonstrability through faith in Jesus Christ. As St.Paul said: 'If the resurrection of Christ is false then our faith is vain'. Then the fundamental question of man, as 'what is really true' and 'how to distinguish truth from falsity' are outside the domain of religion, and left to UnHoly people. Hence, at the end disappears the question that originated religion itself, the one about the relationship between humans and their environment and how to manage it, substituted by the ones about the trinity of God, the Resurrection, the Virgin Birth and similia."
Again, if the Church feel free to criticize scientific method, then it is completely free to not use any result that we have obtained from this method. Beginning with antibiotics. And good luck.

P.S. the title of this post is due to the striking resemblance between Ratzinger and Darth Sidious. Scaaary...

...to have a tango. I don't know how many of you dance (BTW, you all should...), but, for the enlight... I mean dancers among you: what was the weirdest place in which you danced?
Monday night a new friend of mine and me were having a tango in the subterraneans of Sissa, the insititution in which I study (I studied, to be precise... after the PhD I'm only a guest). She brought music and a CD player, I was carrying with me some speaker. We interrupted just before the night guard's regular tour in the corridors, well after midnight :-)
I am seriously thinking of organizing a couple of tango happenings in the most improbable places...
Some suggestions?

To all horror movie lovers all around: if you haven't yet seen "the Descent", you are missing a good one. Ok, there are some cliche' in the plot, and there are some minor defects here and there. But I've jumped on the chair during all the projection. And it was the first time in the last 2-3 years... so the movie is pretty scary. You can feel the tension always creeping, and sometimes, just when you think you can relax a bit... BANG! The director is good, and it's only his second movie (the first was Dog Soldiers, always an horror but with a good amount of humor. Here, instead, the movie is dead serious, wicked and politically uncorrect). If somebody among you has already seen this movie please leave a comment below, I would like to hear your impressions.
It's not the best movie of the year, sure, but it's a little gem of evil that you should not miss.

Taxidermy Art. I DO love the griffins! And even the kitten's skulls are great.