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Atheists & Agnostics

Brainstormy

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6. I like Dawkins' take

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Sun Dec 31, 2017, 08:44 PM

Dec 2017

Religion is constantly making claims about the material world and physical "reality" which it can't back up. The most fundamental claims of Christianity--there was a virgin birth, miracles, humans can rise from the dead, etc., etc., --are claims about the material world. The notion of non-overlapping magisteria has never been one that religions ascribe to. On the contrary, they depend on that "overlap."

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Non-Overlapping Magisteria [View all] NeoGreen Dec 2017 OP

Time to stop being polite Bradshaw3 Dec 2017 #1

My interpretation is that Gould... NeoGreen Dec 2017 #2

If only religion would just concern itself with its own "domain." trotsky Dec 2017 #3

YES! uriel1972 Dec 2017 #4

My cousin had Non-Overlapping Magisteria. He got better. Freelancer Dec 2017 #5

I like Dawkins' take Brainstormy Dec 2017 #6