On Jun 17, 6:25Â am, "Yang, AthD (h.c)"
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>>>On Jun 17, 4:18Â am, Wombat wrote:
>>> On 17 Jun, 07:48, "Yang, AthD (h.c)"
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>>>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:27:47 -0700 (PDT),
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>>>>>"I want to know how God created this universe. I want to know His
>>>>>thoughts. All the rest are just details." Albert Einstein
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>>>> Yep, that vaunted Christian intellectual superiority
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>>>> A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind,
>>>> in which he described the Bible as "pretty childish" and scoffed at
>>>> the notion that the Jews could be a "chosen people," sold for $404,000
>>>> at an auction in London. That was 25 times the presale estimate.
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>>>> Yang
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>>> Einstein was a Christian?
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>> Â Â I assume Yang's remark about "vaunted Christian intellectual
>>superiority" was sarcasm directed to the shit-for-brains who started
>>this thread rather than to Einstein. Â I'll be the first to concede
>>that atheists have their fair share of strange people and the
>>occasional wacko, but religious people, particularly fundy types, have
>>way more than their fair share of outright intellectually substandard,
>>congitively impaired, irrational, antirational, willfully never to be
>>rational, stupid-and-proud-of-it, dimbulbs who are so dumb it makes
>>one's skin crawl.
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>>> Wombat
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> Onec upon a time Christianity lead the world in intellectual thought;
> people like Augustine of Hippo and Francis Bacon were the most
> intelligent people among their contemporaries.
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> Now, most if not all of any intellectual discoveries of note are made
> by atheists and agnostics, from Darwin to Einsetin to Watson and
> Crick. The voice for Christianity has gone from Abelard to Newton
> to... Jerry Falwell- a serious decline in intellectual firepower.
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> That's just how the ball bounces.
It does know, but since the theory evolution turned in much more of
a fan club than
science, it never many people that much, And Watson is mostly
the typical science crazed now after it turned out that DNA isn't
the
fountain of youth after all.
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> Yang
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> "I can hardly wait for your head to explode when the Repubs hold onto
> both houses of Congress this November. And Yang can quote me on that."
> Â Â Â Â Â -Fred Stone, 6/14/2006
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> "FRED STONE YOU GOT PWNED. " Â
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