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35. Yawn. Yes, I know what point you THOUGHT you were making
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 06:51 PM
Feb 2015

I know what point you desperately wanted to make. Your problem is, you did a really rotten job of it.

Here's the real point: People can compartmentalize and keep all sorts of contradictory ideas in their heads together if it helps them get through the day. But just because two things can "co-exist", it does not in any way follow that they are "compatible", much less mutually supportive or cooperative. Quite a lot of married and formerly married couples can attest to that.

I am a true believer... chillfactor Feb 2015 #1
Because religion purports to reveal truths about the universe that aren't true. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #2
Which raises an interesting question. bvf Feb 2015 #4
We are currently facing several existential crisis, and the Bullshit Factory, which includes Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #10
Some of those religions are predicated upon a hoped-for future die-off. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #14
Wrong. Science doesn't deal in truths demwing Feb 2015 #42
Hardly. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #43
Absolutely and most people do not have difficulty with that at all. cbayer Feb 2015 #8
Yes, and our founding fathers showed that slavery could co-exist skepticscott Feb 2015 #3
You didn't read it, did you? Here, I'll grab my highlighter. NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #6
Disingenuous as fuck. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #16
73% of Catholics said "No", we aren't in the end times. Not bad! NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #36
Yeah, but they're outnumbered. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #37
Yup! Hey, have you ever seen this: World Religions Tree? Giant graphic. NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #38
Yawn. Yes, I know what point you THOUGHT you were making skepticscott Feb 2015 #35
Good article worth the re-read. cbayer Feb 2015 #5
When someone finds the middle ground between two camps, it pisses off the extremists... NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #7
Isn't that the truth. cbayer Feb 2015 #9
The marine mammals are so moving. NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #11
The whales are all down here, but they should be passing through your region in a couple of months. cbayer Feb 2015 #13
They contradict each other... MellowDem Feb 2015 #12
I see all the place where there's concordance. NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #17
You lost me edhopper Feb 2015 #15
To me, they aren't legitimate if they're stuck in their narrow POV. Good grief. NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #18
"Not all religions are evil Christianity, and not all Science is right." This is a nonsensical... Humanist_Activist Feb 2015 #19
I'll stick with my first post edhopper Feb 2015 #21
Science is a process, a technique for determining physical reality.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #22
Not true at all. cbayer Feb 2015 #23
Phenomenons are things that are happening in physical reality hence they are part of it Fumesucker Feb 2015 #24
Everything that we don't understand now we call supernatural. cbayer Feb 2015 #25
Gravity is supernatural? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #26
Of course you didn't know that, because it's not true. cbayer Feb 2015 #27
I've been into astronomy since I was about seven or eight Fumesucker Feb 2015 #28
Wow! That is so cool. cbayer Feb 2015 #30
Lots of trees here where I am and some light pollution Fumesucker Feb 2015 #31
Our view is completely unobstructed and we often have a complete cbayer Feb 2015 #34
And yet you just said AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #33
Simply not true. trotsky Feb 2015 #29
No we fucking don't. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #32
No we don't, that's a stupid assertion, what we don't understand now we call unknown. Humanist_Activist Feb 2015 #39
Both series(both Carl Sagan's and Neil Degrasse Tyson's, and their hosts and producers... Humanist_Activist Feb 2015 #20
Yes, but there are some here who are so gaga over NDT skepticscott Feb 2015 #40
The contrast between Dawkins and Tyson is this, their specialties... Humanist_Activist Feb 2015 #41
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