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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
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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
On Dec 3, 2007 1:41 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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 asked in
On 3 Dec 2007, at 16:04, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 1:41 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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 scientific
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 Dec 3, 2007 11:02 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This demonstrates that skepticism leads to better science, right?
You're arguing that evolution is bad science?
No.
I'm pointing out that there's a correlation between skepticism about science
and good science. 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
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 to
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 when religion
On 4 Dec 2007, at 00:03, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 11:02 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This demonstrates that skepticism leads to better science, right?
You're arguing that evolution is bad science?
No.
I'm pointing out that there's a correlation
On Dec 3, 2007 5:09 PM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 you
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 don't
On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:29 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
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
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