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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-03-07 11:37 PM
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4. To believe in something for which there is no
extrinsic evidence and for which there can be no extrinsic evidence is to abandon your responsibility as a human being. Faith can never change and must deny that which does not fit in its dogmatic framework. Science, on the other hand is constantly self-correcting and self-examining.

Science wins 1000 times out of 1000 because it is verifiable.

The deliberate and systematic dumbing down of the populace began the day Raygun announced for the presidency and it has continued unabated since then. My guess is that about 30% of the population is functionally illiterate and incapable of finishing the classic syllogism: All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is ______.
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