10 month ago
Linkorama : Do you believe in evolution? - Pierre Omidyar: I say we should call a truce, at least until people can think with clear heads about this: acknowledge that faith and science are both beneficial in their own domains, and that they coexist. By definition, they are orthogonal and can't con
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12 month ago
plasticbag : On similarly disturbing territory, Tony Blair has converted to the Catholic faith... - Pretty fascinating stuff. This is a man who had his authoritarian streak, clearly - and evidently believed in a faith I find near absurd. Also a man who protected a woman's right to choose and made gay people more equal than ever...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : The difference between religion and science encapsulated in one easy to digest tiny little flow diagram - As I get older I get less interested in the intellectual paradoxes that language allows us to get lost in, and more interested in affecting the world around me. My patience for religion—and philosophy—has diminished enormously.
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