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In reply to the discussion: The Mistrust of Science [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)25. Most of that post is nonsense, and just an excuse to throw insults like 'imbecile' around
You don't know what 'a priori' means, so I suggest you find out before using it again.
"Quantum mechanics, upon which 70 % of modern industry is said to depend, would not even have been discovered, nor ever would be."
"Would not even have been discovered" ... if what? Einstein was instrumental in it, and it's well known he wasn't religious. Those who did formulate it did not do so because of religion. They did it because of the results of observations and experiments. Who is it you are damning as "hypocrites and parasites", then?
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No, one has to actually listen to Einstein to know what he means by Spinoza's god.
longship
Jun 2016
#18
Atheists don't claim absolute knowledge. Are you 'agnostic' about Leprechauns?
immoderate
Jun 2016
#31
Oh, come on. One could as well make an argument that "white people" invented science.
DetlefK
Jun 2016
#21
"Oh, all the big thinkers were religious! It must have been their religion!" So
Joe Chi Minh
Jun 2016
#24
'divinity and experience and common sense'. It's not attacking experience or common sense, either
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#11
"True atheist scientists are parasites". You get that from a speech about science and vaccines
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#17
Most of that post is nonsense, and just an excuse to throw insults like 'imbecile' around
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#25
'The great physicist Edwin Hubble, speaking at Caltech’s commencement in 1938,
Joe Chi Minh
Jun 2016
#20
Tell that to muriel. He's under the impression this has nothing to do with religion.
rug
Jun 2016
#9
My pleasure. Very civiliised of you. And practical. I don't usually argue.
Joe Chi Minh
Jun 2016
#29