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Re: The Origins Debate
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Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:25:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> 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.
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> Yeh, well, it's never for me so much as for the spectators. :D
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> > This debate isn't going to go anywhere, no common ground.
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> 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]
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> best
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> LFB
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> [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.
Spot on. I have no beef with religion or any other dogma except when it
obstructs progress.
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| (...) I think that this is the stance I have been leaning towards the past year or so. I feel rather lonely in church these days as I no longer "see" as the majority of the congregation seems to. Blind faith ("dogma" I suppose) seems to work at (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yeh, well, it's never for me so much as for the spectators. :D (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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