On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
> And by the way, I left you an opening with the hospital metaphor,
> but you
> didn't grab it. There are iatrogenic illnesses, those that are
> caused by
> the healer. I have no doubt that there are parallels in religion,
> but just
> as we d
On Dec 3, 2007 5:09 PM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The theory is that religion causes evil by clouding minds. That's the
> causality. The correlation is there. QED.
It's hardly logical to state your premise and the correlation and claim that
you've proved something. But
On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:29 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
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> On 4 Dec 2007, at 01:12, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
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>> On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
>>
>>> In hopes of going somewhere more interesting with this topic, let me
>>> offer
>>> this challenge -- can you (or anybody else who can
On 4 Dec 2007, at 01:12, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>> In hopes of going somewhere more interesting with this topic, let me
>> offer
>> this challenge -- can you (or anybody else who can stomach the
>> subject) come
>> up with external causalities wh
On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
> In hopes of going somewhere more interesting with this topic, let me
> offer
> this challenge -- can you (or anybody else who can stomach the
> subject) come
> up with external causalities when religion and evil co-occur? If
> we're
> going t
On 4 Dec 2007, at 00:03, Nick Arnett wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 11:02 AM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>>> This demonstrates that skepticism leads to better science, right?
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>> You're arguing that evolution is bad science?
>
>
> No.
>
> I'm pointing out that the
On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> Probably because they watch the evening news where most of the people
> they see in the stories behave like they follow the devil or like
> non-GEICO cavemen . . .
Or possibly they don't believe there's a difference.
--
Warren Ockrassa
B
On Dec 3, 2007 11:02 AM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > This demonstrates that skepticism leads to better science, right?
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>
> You're arguing that evolution is bad science?
No.
I'm pointing out that there's a correlation between skepticism about science
and good scienc
Probably because they watch the evening news where most of the people
they see in the stories behave like they follow the devil or like
non-GEICO cavemen . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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On 3 Dec 2007, at 16:04, Nick Arnett wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 1:41 AM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>> Darwin's theory of evolution met a far more skeptical audience which
>> might surprise some outsiders as the United States is renowned for
>> its
>> excellence in scien
On Dec 3, 2007 1:41 AM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://uk.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=UKN2922875820071129
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> The poll of 2,455 U.S. adults from Nov 7 to 13 found that 82 percent
> of those surveyed believed in God, a figure unchanged since the
> question was aske
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/11/dont_mess_with_texas_education.html
"Don’t mess with Texas education - November 30, 2007
Attitudes to education differ round the world, but things are looking
pretty odd in Texas right now. The director of the state’s science
curriculum is cl
http://uk.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=UKN2922875820071129
"Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:53pm GMT
By Ed Stoddard
DALLAS (Reuters Life!) - More Americans believe in a literal hell and
the devil than Darwin's theory of evolution, according to a new Harris
poll released on Thursday.
It is the late
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