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To: cosmicforce who wrote (8676)	3/15/2001 8:55:06 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 82486

cosmic, well said. The disadvantage to a debate or argument against religion for someone focussing on science - on observable, replicable fact - is that ultimately we have no way of disproving a "belief", whereas the belief-based argument can and does point to any unknown or unfixed as a justification... whatever is so far unexplained, not immediately obvious to an insufficiently trained mind or simply not understood is taken as proving the religious case. If someone chooses to believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth, because their religious text says it is so... or that mankind did not evolve gradually from less brain-powered primates, but came into being full-formed by act of their God: then all evidence to the contrary can be passed off as a snare laid by a/the devil... so, well, rational argument simply cannot win. The opposing argument is not based on the same referents, and does not permit of (dis)proof. It becomes something of opinion, not fact.

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