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RE: If you wish to start your own religion
November 18, 2013 at 12:10 pm
All "religions" began when one guy said to another guy:
"Hey, you. Listen. GOD told me to tell you that he wants things done in a certain way. He told me what that way is and he wants you to do what I say.
Oh, GOD also said for you to give me some money so I can go and tell others."
It is a testament to the gullibility of humans that the scam has worked so well for so long.
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RE: If you wish to start your own religion
November 18, 2013 at 1:36 pm
(November 18, 2013 at 12:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All "religions" began when one guy said to another guy:
Maybe the first religion was started when one guy wondered
"how can I rape people and steal from them and have them love me for it?"
"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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