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Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:21 pm

I think religion is the last thing on peoples' minds. Just coping with everyday is more than enough for most. Church services have not resumed here. Nobody can really be bothered. In the religious pockets is where the paranoia is highest. With the way things are going (staring at the church across the road) most will be bankrupt by the end of the year.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:29 pm

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Post by Woodbutcher » Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:03 am

Evolution is slowly taking us away from creationism.
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Post by Tyrannical » Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:27 am

Gerald McGrew wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:14 pm
As someone who spent a lot of time on the evolution v creationism battles over the last 20 years, I've noticed that in the last 5 years or so the issue seems to have largely gone off the radar. In the message boards that are still around (both Christian and secular) it's barely debated, if at all. Just look at this sub-forum...it's pretty much dead.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:31 am

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Post by rainbow » Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:32 am

pErvinalia wrote:
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Post by Animavore » Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:08 am

You make it sound like creationists were even in the running.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:46 am

It was a handicapped race...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:29 am

I think we say 'differently abled' these days.
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Post by rainbow » Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:45 am

Brian Peacock wrote:
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I think we say 'differently abled' these days.
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Post by Animavore » Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:39 am

Debating creationists was only ever something that was done for political reasons, mostly to keep those numbskulls from pushing their religion in schools, and even then mostly an American phenomena, nobodies having to defend from powerful, overly financed religious nuts in Ireland.

In science they were never contenders. If you go to any firm or institute working on cutting edge fields in biology, genetics, or paleontology with your Mickey Mouse certificate from The Baptist School of Truthology you'd get laughed out of it.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:18 pm

I find it curious that some of those who used Teh Powah of Rationalitee to shred and debunk creationist canards and insistences then went on to deploy their mighty intellects on shredding and debunking feminism and trans-rights activists, and political progressives in general. The 'Atheist movement' made for strange bed-fellows sometimes.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:32 pm

There's always been an arrogance involved. That seems to have translated across to those issues you mentioned.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:39 pm

Yeah. Remember when someone decided we should all call ourselves 'Brights'?
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Re: Have we won?

Post by JimC » Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:03 pm

That was absurd... :nono:

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