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Subject: Re: phs.2144: Re: Educated religious people
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 10:14:51 EST
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 >"Belief in god isn't based on understanding, it's based on faith. Likewise
 > there is no understanding the creation of the universe, that's also based
 > on faith"
                       Andy Tannenbaum


      Holy moly! That's exactly what I meant when I said religious faith atro-
 phied the mind! Since when is there no understanding the creation of the
 universe? Where have you been? Let's open our minds and try to find out what
 is really going on here; by collecting the facts and putting them in order.
 With this "understanding" and some mental gymnastics maybe we can find the real
 answers.             

      So far as I know, the computer was not discovered with faith! Neither
 was modern medicine. Ever heard of Spontaneous Generation? Thats where people
 thought maggots came from- until they found out otherwise with a microscope,
 which also was not a product of faith- but of human inginuity!!
                       GEORGE LA BELLE