“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in..” - says Richard Dawkins

[Anonymous]

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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

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These are straight-up wrong. Most faiths-Judaism. Islam, most of Protestantism, Catholicism- encourage science including belief in evolution.

So many great, groundbreaking scientific research and discoveries by Catholics.

True! Like Galileo, he was a Catholic!

In 1632 Galileo published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which defended heliocentrism, and was immensely popular. Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633, found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", and sentenced him to house arrest where he remained until his death in 1642.[2] At that point, heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to abstain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas after the trial.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#:

[jsteele]

There is no need to turn this into Richard Dawkins forum. Please join the earlier discussion:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1200450.page