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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Can one not be intelligent, well educated and rational and also believe in a "god".
Einstein did afterall. Are you saying discussing the issue with him would have been no different to rolling in mud with swine?
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Einstein did
not "believe in God."
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/einstein.html
And even if he
did, that is still an appeal to authority logical fallacy. Einstein could be wrong. Einstein
was wrong in his opposition to quantum mechanics.
And you are disregarding the first part of my statement: "When you are dealing with intelligent, well educated, rational people, you can be polite." There are intelligent, well-educated people who are also religious. But the overwhelming majority of the religious people chomping at the bit to "debate" and "disprove" evolution and other non-theistic things are pig-ignorant nitwits or slimebag liars or both. Atheists gain their bitterness (if it is there) not from debating with erudite philosophers-- they get if from dealing with hillbillies who say "I ain't come from no monkey, I dun come from Adam and Eve (not Adam and Steve) and they ain't dun bin no big bang an' you gonna die an' burn in hell fur'ever if you don't dun bin turnin' to Jeeeeeeeesus, who diiied foooor yoooouah seeeeens!" It comes from listening to people who couldn't distinguish a quark from a quasar if their lives literally depended on it who come up and tell you how they know more than "all dem gooodles syentyst" and then start quoting the same idiotic creationst talking points that all ignorant sheep get from their ignorant shepards and the wolves that prey on them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy
http://www.google.com/custom?num=100...onists&spell=1