(August 25, 2011 at 5:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Takes no faith whatsoever, doubt it top to bottom. Doubt it every day. That's where good science comes from. I doubt, for example, that there was only one instance of abiogenesis, only one vector for life.
One can doubt things they have faith in

Ace Wrote:Evidence and facts don't require faith, they require knowledge and understanding.
Knowledge: Faith.
Understanding: Anecdotal.
Feared it? Doubt that. Respected it? Certainly.
Good tool for terrifying the fuck out of your neighbors: rip other neighbors to shred ritualistically. Is no wonder the other tribes assisted Cortez

Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day