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Atheism: Effectively the Same Nonsense (loewald.com)
4 points by podperson on Dec 23, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The crucial difference between math and religion is that no one discounts the previous/parallel math as being untrue. Newtonian physics still holds as valid for large distances and lower speeds even though we use Einstein-ian physics for small distances and high speeds (closer to light).

You don't seem to grasp that even though Christianity and Islam, for example, are extremely close a Christian discounts Islam as being absolutely UN-true. Penn's point is that we would MAKE UP some religion, find a Bible somewhere and discount it as being complete untrue in favor of our new made up fantasy.




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