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Blue Jay
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Message 89 of 89 (595777)
12-10-2010 11:05 AM
Reply to: Message 84 by BarackZero
12-10-2010 8:41 AM


Hi, BarackZero.
BarackZero writes:
"Religion has always been a substitute for real knowledge."
This is the Biggest of the Big Lies touted by atheists, by far.
For any broad statement, you can always point out a couple of exceptions (e.g., some people who smoke for sixty years never develop lung cancer).
So what?
The existence of a few exceptions doesn't mean the overall pattern isn't real.
Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, etc... do you know what these men all have in common?
Why, they didn't let religion substitute for real knowledge, of course.
They stand out as extraordinary examples in history because people who do what they did are rare.
A very large proportion of religious people do indeed allow religion to substitute for real knowledge.
Pointing out a handful of people who don't doesn't change that.

-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
Darwin loves you.

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