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Coyote
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Message 14 of 76 (609871)
03-23-2011 10:36 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Buzsaw
03-23-2011 10:24 PM


Re: Homeschooling conventions
Native American pagan...
Maybe they are right and you are wrong.
From Alexander Pope, Essay on Man:

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n,
Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler Heav'n,
Some safer world in depth of woods embraced,
Some happier island in the wat'ry waste,
Where slaves once more their native land behold,
No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
To be, contents his natural desire;
He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Coyote
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Message 39 of 76 (609950)
03-24-2011 9:42 PM
Reply to: Message 38 by jar
03-24-2011 7:50 PM


Re: beliefs and profession
jar writes:
Someone might be able to be a physicist and not believe in Evolution, but don't see anyway someone could be a physicist and believe in a young earth.
I also can't see anyway someone could be a biologist and not believe in evolution or a geologist and believe in a young earth.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
(See also tagline.)

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Coyote
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Message 42 of 76 (609956)
03-24-2011 10:55 PM
Reply to: Message 41 by Buzsaw
03-24-2011 10:43 PM


Re: beliefs and profession
Buzsaw writes:
Coyote writes:
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
(See also tagline.)
Only if one lets it. I don't think Slevesque would let it. There's too much at stake for him. It is likely that he scores better than some in his class who do believe in the ToE.
Buz, you still don't get it!
Belief gets in the way of learning!
If you firmly believe in something you can't learn about anything that is opposed. That's where you and most creationists are.
Scientists don't operate that way. They are more likely to say, "What's your evidence." And they'll look at that evidence.
It's not our fault that what you keep presenting to us is shoddy evidence, bolstered by your belief into an irrefutable dogma.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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