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Re: The Origins Debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:06:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> If people want to take comfort in religion, bully for them, but I find it
> rather tiresome to go over the same old same old over and over again
> whenever some newcomer decides to start it up again instead of reviewing. My
> hat's off to you for refuting in detail instead of just grousing like I am
> doing.
Yeh, well, it's never for me so much as for the spectators. :D
> This debate isn't going to go anywhere, no common ground.
My only search for common ground is to get the agreement that
yes, belief in religion is a matter of faith and is therefore
unprovable positively *or* negatively. My aim, if you'd call
it one, is to get dogmatic obstructionism *out* of astronomy,
biology, geology, history, etc. [1]
best
LFB
[1] Note that I say "dogmatic" and not "religious," because
it's not people's beliefs in and of themselves that cause
the problem--it's the effort to push a particular *brand*
of that belief that does the damage.
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| (...) <snip> Excellent refutation. If Ian had been doing his homework reading what has been said here before maybe he wouldn't be posting essentially the same tired stuff all over again that we've all already heard. If people want to take comfort in (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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