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- Next to the user's post that you like, click on "MPG Donation".
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All your points in this post are excellent.
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"Many Theists are STILL attempting to debate Darwin – who died 150 years ago."

This sentence made me LOL. Thank you for a good post.
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An intelligent and sensible answer, the latest in a number of such answers from you. You sort of remind me of myself. ;-) If only I had the time to resume debating :-(
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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Exactly.
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Yep.
Religion remains the only mode of discourse that encourages grown men and women to pretend to know things they manifestly do not know.
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However, no imagine that you are trying to convince a maturing child that they should still "believe in Santa Claus" as a non magical person. He doesn't live at the north pole, he doesn't have flying reindeer, and he doesn't climb down chimneys of people's homes to deliver gifts on Christmas Eve.

The child then ask, "So why am I still clinging to the idea of Santa Claus?"

And you say, "Because the idea of giving well-behaved people gifts is a good idea".

I think even the child would reply, "Well, can't we just forget about Santa Claus and just realize that giving well-behaved people gifts is a good idea?"

Why cling to Santa Claus when the moral of the story is already understood without him?
You win for this great analogy.
"Faith: Pretending to know something you don't know. Faith taints or at worst removes our curiosity about the world, what we should value, and what type of life we should lead. Faith replaces wonder with epistemological arrogance disguised as false humility. Faith immutably alters the starting conditions for inquiry by uprooting a hunger to know and sowing a warrantless confidence.�
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Very good points.
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True that!!
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith. - Christopher Hitchens
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That's exactly what this apologetic argument is all about.

Trash everything to the same level of uncertainty as a faith-based theology.

And then you have level-playing field.

That's the fundamental basis of this type of argument.
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Good post.
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