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Are some people truly better off believing?
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RE: Are some people truly better off believing?
(May 21, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(May 21, 2015 at 5:59 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: I sort of feel like until science can say we have a cure for human aging and death, religion will continue to exist. I'm in a minority among my fellow biologists in that I believe aging should be approached as a disease to be treated (not an inevitable outcome that we accept as a foregone conclusion). 

Unless someone comes up with a cure, it is inevitable.

Well yeah, but what if science treated I don't know death from small pox or polio infection as an unstoppable killer, treating as a foregone conclusion the idea that it can't be treated? So a shift in perspective is important in this context ... at least in my view. 
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RE: Are some people truly better off believing? - by nihilistcat - May 22, 2015 at 8:28 pm

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