Well I had a click around and landed on Page Eleven An atheist posted this beautiful quote by John Updike:
I read on looking for the screams of protest but none came. Afaics, that thread wouldn't be out of place here, well apart from the ribaldry. And on that note I'm pretty sure the reason debate's here, quickly descend into screaming matches is due to the fact that we have so very few genuine theists to debate with. I can count on half a hand those genuinely interested in honest debate. The rest, are cunts.
Err, it's mebbie best I don't go into that to much.
But to be serious I think that crowd are on the whole, a pretty liberal bunch.
Quote:Whenever theology touches science, it gets burned. In the sixteenth century astronomy, in the seventeenth microbiology, in the eighteenth geology and paleontology, and the nineteenth Darwin's biology, all grotesquely extended the world-frame and sent churchmen scurrying for cover in ever smaller, more shadowy nooks, little gloomy ambiguous caves in the psyche, where even new neurobiology is cruelly harrying them, goughing them out of the multifolded brain like wood lice from under the lumber pile."
I read on looking for the screams of protest but none came. Afaics, that thread wouldn't be out of place here, well apart from the ribaldry. And on that note I'm pretty sure the reason debate's here, quickly descend into screaming matches is due to the fact that we have so very few genuine theists to debate with. I can count on half a hand those genuinely interested in honest debate. The rest, are cunts.
Err, it's mebbie best I don't go into that to much.
But to be serious I think that crowd are on the whole, a pretty liberal bunch.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
