From: Robert Comer 

>Heck the diff is that's what religious types have done repeatedly to
>scientific types with no such events in reverse.

You have your anti-religious blinders on, religious people have always been
persecuted from one group or another since recorded history started.

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Bob Comer


On Wed, 09 May 2007 09:53:56 +0100, Ad
 wrote:

>Robert Comer wrote:
>>> Except that it removes God from the equation of how come we are we.
>>
>> It doesn't remove God at all for me.  It's the difference between why
>> and how things started versus how they work now.
>>
>>> So one book is vague. How about in the Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian,
>>> Wicca etc etc Books?
>>
>
>But hey no reason to suppose that the creator wasn't Apsu or the
>Ungambikula.
>
>
>> I can't speak about the other books, especially since John inferred
>> Christianism with that backhanded description.
>>
>>> Yeah much better to just torture the scientists into recanting their
>>> heresies after all forcing someone to change their belief that the earth
>>> is not the center of the universe let alone the solar system is just too
>>> dangerous.
>>
>> No, that's exactly the same problem, you're trying to force a belief
>> change on someone, and like I said, that's a very dangerous thing to
>> do.
>>
>
>Heck the diff is that's what religious types have done repeatedly to
>scientific types with no such events in reverse.
>
>At what point did the scientists burn some catholics or indeed imprison
>& torture the Pope to get him to recant his heresies?
>
>
>> My point about being dangerous is purely human, forced changes are how
>> wars start...
>>
>
>It's been religions wot've started it not scientists because blind
>belief in the rightness of your cause is usually the key inflammatory
>factor.
>
>Adam

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