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Religion has no use for evidence in creating or revising any idea. But I still get your point.
by pkulak 14y ago
Religion has no use for evidence in creating or revising any idea. But I still get your point.
- politician 14y agoLet's try to be more tolerant then /r/atheism.
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- illuminate 14y agoIt's not intolerance, it's an airgap. Religion is a supernatural matter, not a tool by which one can gather objective evidence. To judge one by the standards of the other would be unfair (no matter whether a theist or atheist is trying to conflate one with the other.)
- politician 14y agoRegardless, religion wasn't part of the article, and it's completely irrelevant to the conversation. These two guys brought it up for no other reason than open mocking. That's not tolerance, that's Reddit.
- bunderbunder 14y agoSadly, at least for Americans it's not irrelevant. In the USA paleontology, especially dinosaur paleontology, plays a huge role in the continuing political struggle over whether evolution should be taught in science classes. As a result the sources from which people learn about paleontology can often be quite partisan. A very large number of Americans learn their paleontology from sources whose approach to the subject is markedly different, which does play a part in the perpetuation of scientifically discredited ideas such as this one. So while many of us would agree that the comparison ideally shouldn't be relevant, certain cultural realities mean that it is. Though it's definitely still tangential in this case.
- pkulak 14y agoI tolerate religion, I just don't respect it.
- pathy 14y agoTo be fair, at least the Catholic church seems to accept evolution and such things and priests used to be the top scientists back in medieval times.
- smackay 14y agoThe Catholic church is a pragmatic institution. You can be sure that if the tide of public opinion started flowing against evolution they'd drop their support in a heart-beat.
- pathy 14y agoI personally have little love for the Catholic church but I do believe a previous pope offered to make the theory of evolution the dogma. (on a side note: Do you make something the dogma? I never really used the word in that sense before)