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Solar Eclipse pits superstition against science

Started by Locutus, July 20, 2009, 06:18:32 PM

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Bo D

#15
July 23, 2009, 08:19:23 AM
Quote from: Henry Hawk on July 23, 2009, 07:31:22 AM
There is even STILL people out there who actually think that this Country was founded by secular people, who came here to start a government to keep folks who DO have faith in God OUT of ALL Governmental affairs...... :yes:

Actually, the first permanent English colony here was founded strictly as a capitalist venture.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

LOsborne

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July 23, 2009, 08:21:44 AM
Quote from: Bo D on July 23, 2009, 08:19:23 AM
Actually, the first permanent English colony here was founded strictly as a capitalist venture.
How did that work out for them, do you know?

DISCLAIMER: I am not implying in any way that they would have done better with religion-oriented compact.

pariann

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July 23, 2009, 10:13:56 AM
Quote from: Bo D on July 23, 2009, 08:19:23 AM
Actually, the first permanent English colony here was founded strictly as a capitalist venture.
Was that Jamestown?
Looks like I've come full circle.

Bo D

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July 24, 2009, 09:27:32 AM
Quote from: LOsborne on July 23, 2009, 08:21:44 AM
How did that work out for them, do you know?

DISCLAIMER: I am not implying in any way that they would have done better with religion-oriented compact.

It worked out very well for the investors back in England. Not so well for the colonists.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

Bo D

#19
July 24, 2009, 09:28:17 AM
Quote from: pariann on July 23, 2009, 10:13:56 AM
Was that Jamestown?

Yes! I see you remembered your American History!  :biggrin:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

pariann

#20
July 24, 2009, 10:08:59 AM
One of the FEW things I remember. LOL
Looks like I've come full circle.

Locutus

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July 24, 2009, 04:34:18 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on July 23, 2009, 05:11:06 AM
. . That such still goes on today is incomprehensible to most of civilization, and yet it persists in some areas of the world even today. . .

What's also laughable is that chief among those who find it incomprehensible are those who believe in a deity (read God).  They think he's active in the world today, and that he responds to their personal prayers.  They think everyone else is nuts; but they don't consider themselves as such.  :rolleyes:
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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