On 22 Sep 2006, at 10:21PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But with 9/11, autism/vaccine crankery, creationism, alternative
medicine, perpetual motion and so on, we're seeing groups that
either corrupt this relationship and the nature of science, or just
ignore or dismiss it entirely.
These people ignore data and pre-existent well tested theories.
They rely not on facts as a whole but isolated pieces of data and
they develop theories that cannot stand the test of experience or time
That's one of the evils of religious thinking. To protect religion
from scrutiny the advocates of all religions attack rational thought
and arguments based on facts and evidence.
The Emperor is naked Maru
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William T Goodall
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"It was the pseudo-religious transfiguration of politics that largely
ensured [Hitler's] success, notably in Protestant areas." - Fritz
Stern, professor emeritus of history at Columbia
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