The [in]compatibility of science and religion

[skepticscott]

99. Nice try, but all BS

I never called experience bias, so your implication is blatantly dishonest. But if you try to introduce personal experience as objective evidence in rational inquiry, you most certainly risk introducing bias of the same type that you claimed to decry as "pseudoskepticsm" in a previous post.

When I said that "Rational inquiry doesn't care", I was being figurative (you do know what the definition of "figurative" is, don't you?). Obviously the process of rational inquiry is not a thing with human emotions. Did you think I was unaware of that? It merely meant the the question I mentioned is not something that rational inquiry can be legitimately be brought to bear on, just like the question of whether Mozart or Beethoven was a "better" composer.

And rational inquiry looks at the physical world and how it behaves. Things in the natural world are the way they are, and are not necessarily going to make us feel better once we understand them well. Despite your rather lame attempts to smear rational inquiry, it is the nature being studied that is cold, hard and uncaring. Useful rational inquiry has to show us how things really are, not how we wish they were, and the results may not make us warm and fuzzy when all is said and done. if you can't cope with that, sorry. What exactly would you have rational inquiry "care" about, other than getting as close to the truth as possible?

As far as the Inquisition, where is your evidence that they were being rational? "No doubt" sound like more personal bias of yours, trying to manifest itself as demonstrated fact. They may have thought their actions were necessary, but that's quite another matter. And trying to conflate "witch hunts" (searches for things that people have irrationally convinced themselves exist, or are much more common than they really are, when the opposite is true) with Inquisitional investigations (and to try to compare those with evidence-based skepticism) shows that you really don't understand any of the three.

You really are getting tiresome, so it would be nice if you tried to educate yourself a little next time, rather than just flinging uninformed smears.