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MineralMan

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4. See, that's the difference between science and religion.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:52 PM

Jul 2019

With science, everything used as evidence has to be true and verifiable. With religion, you just have to believe things are true, evidence or not. Science is hard; religion is easy.

See how that works?

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