(January 18, 2020 at 9:42 am)Daniel Wilson Wrote: I was very surprised to discover that only 10% of the Nobel prize winners are atheist:
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How do you explain this?
Even if true it is logical fallacy known as Argument from authority. People can draw from that kind of data to believe what they want. For instance I met recently group of alchemists who believe in alchemy because Marie Curie and her husband went to see psychics, so not because of the evidence for alchemy but because Marie Curie saw psychics.
So again, if religious people want to prove God they should stop constantly using logical fallacies, but bring evidence for god.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
