Re: paleonet Psychopathology of religion

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Andy, Frank,

 

You tell me either to rein it in or that I am a scientific fundamentalist, however, I do not tell the pious that they are evil and misguided, nor do I try to dress up my pet scientific theory as religion and try to legislate to impose it on them. This is the type of activity in which real fundamentalists are engaged and from which they need to be reined in. They are telling me that I am misguided or evil because I consider that evolution is the best explanation for the organic diversity we see around us and the fragments of which we find in the geological record. Do you really think that is a fundamentalist outlook?

 

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