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4. I suppose if you need your beliefs bolstered it did.

Reply to gcomeau (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 13, 2013, 04:34 PM

Feb 2013

But it's really a very old, very stale argument.

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Science and Religion: Never the Twain Shall Meet [View all] trotsky Feb 2013 OP

All he had to say is that "why" and "how" are two different questions. rug Feb 2013 #1

No. Everything he said very much needed saying. gcomeau Feb 2013 #2

I suppose if you need your beliefs bolstered it did. rug Feb 2013 #4

A very old stale argument... gcomeau Feb 2013 #5

I already made it. rug Feb 2013 #6

And I already pointed out gcomeau Feb 2013 #8

Lol, ok. rug Feb 2013 #9

Indeed. gcomeau Feb 2013 #11

If religion is just about 'why', can we start to ignore all its demands for "what should be do now"? muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #15

Except that many religious do make "how" responses. longship Feb 2013 #10

they may become contradictory on some points Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #17

I'm shocked. gcomeau Feb 2013 #3

I was surprised to see it there as well. n/t trotsky Feb 2013 #7

The congressmen you cite Thats my opinion Feb 2013 #12

Ummm, what? gcomeau Feb 2013 #13

You come from outside their faith tradition. trotsky Feb 2013 #14

Some politicians, like Broun, do cite their religion as the source of their anti-scientific views muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #16

The purpose of some of those mutterings okasha Feb 2013 #18

Exactly! The OP article portrays sell-outs as non-sell-outs and projects from there. Festivito Feb 2013 #19

I notice Bob Jones University was expressly founded to 'educate' students without contaminating them dimbear Feb 2013 #20

I must correct Prof. Einstein Tor_Hershman Feb 2013 #21

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