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No, they aren't. Dreaded Anomaly Send a noteboard - 04/12/2010 10:01:25 PM
There is no reason that it should matter to me. I can let people believe whatever they want to when it comes to religious beliefs and respect them. Why not with scientific beliefs? The two are much closer than the proponents of either would be willing to admit. Would ever be able to bring themselves to admit. And why am I baiting you now? I don't know. I had not noticed I had this problem before. Time for some inner house cleaning it looks like. What I say I believe and what I am doing are not in alignment.


Believing in things because of evidence is fundamentally different than believing in things despite a lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary. In other words, the former is rational, while the latter is irrational.
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