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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 03:48 PM
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1. Sticking god into any inquiry stifles more inquiry, which is why
"god did it" has no place in science. Once got sticks his long blue nose into the equation, all reasoning stops, all curiosity stops, and any study that tries to go behind that answer to find out how such a thing was accomplished gets denounced as blasphemy.

Religion gave us the dark ages, the witch burnings, the Inquisition. Science gave us medicine, dishwashers, airplanes, and plastic. Both contribute to war, alas.

Personally, I'll take science. Its contributions have improved my life, overall. If believers want to call an uneasy truce, that's fine with me. However, when they try to insert "god did it" into any discussion, that discussion is OVER.
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