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What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?

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What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?
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RE: What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?
November 20, 2016 at 9:10 am
(November 14, 2016 at 10:01 pm)Casca Wrote: So what exactly gives one religion the leg to stand on and say "this religion is true, the rest are false", when there is no evidence or fact to back up their claim?

Answered your own question, there. They don't have a leg to stand on regarding any claims they make, otherwise there would only be one religion.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?

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clarification - by BeeDeePee - November 20, 2016 at 3:46 am
RE: What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false? - by Tonus - November 20, 2016 at 9:10 am

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