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You have a knack at seeing hostility where it doesn't exist. Perhaps you psychically "saw" it. Front porch philosopher?
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You have a knack at seeing hostility where it doesn't exist. Perhaps you psychically "saw" it. Front porch philosopher?
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"Strange that he relied purely on science when his ass was on the line, but pushes other philosophies when it doesn't have any consequences if he is wrong."
Seems a bit hostile to me but if it doesn't seem hostile to you we can honestly disagree I guess.
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We have acquired enough unbiased, objective, knowledge by now to be absolutely certain that religion is the creation of human imagination and nothing more. This is true from the pre-historic spirit gods, to the BCE civilizations with recorded histories, to our times and to all time in the future. Even if you only consider the hundreds of millions of years that the dinosaurs ruled the planet, and that no mammal had evolved yet, you have to wonder, where were all those gods that the human imagination created to explain the un-explainable around them?
All religion puts the human in the center of the universe. We already know that this false and it's easy to realize that this need for belief to a supernatural entity is a psychological drive, I call it a dysfunction, that attempts to give an answer to the existential question of who are we, why are we here and what happens after we die.
What happens is that bio-mass disintegrates, like all other dead things have been doing for the billions of years of life on the planet.
Besides biology though, there is a legitimate inquiry about the nature of intelligence -- not related to any religious obfuscation of the term -- that philosophy is trying to examine and figure out, but that's a different issue that is completely irrelevant to religion.