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    How do they decide what a crank is?

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    • it's overwhelmingly obvious to anyone even slightly educated and rationalmonospaced
    • I don't understand how you could possibly be so certain that YOU understand the universe enough to make that assessment.Morning_star
    • Or are you just following the crowd?
      Morning_star
    • I don't claim to. But I have some very trusted sources. Better than trusting pedophiles who worship a naked man on a stick.monospaced
    • You (or your 'contacts') seem to be under the delusion that it's a black and white argument. And that the whole of humanity has chosen either Science or Christianity. They're not even comparable, let alone the only possible positions to hold. Dumb as a brick.Morning_star
    • chosen either Science or Christianity. They're not even comparable, let alone the only possible positions to hold. Dumb as a brick.Morning_star
    • as a brick.Morning_star
    • Exactly, they're not comparable because religion is a belief system and Science isn't.monospaced
    • My "contacts" are the great scientific community that posts its results publiclymonospaced
    • I agree to an extent. You're right about religion, but science can be as dogmatic as religion, especially those that insist the only universe is a materialist one.Morning_star
    • only universe is a materialist one.Morning_star
    • note to self: take morning_star off kegger list.josimar
    • I don't know if that's good or bad : ) What/Who/Where is a Kegger?Morning_star
    • Oh - "A party at which a keg of beer is present._ - That's a shame, i get the BEST drugs. ; )Morning_star
    • Pardon me internet argument, but i have a small contribution, when science adopts dogma, which it often does, it has failedmrrgl
    • Inspired by recent reading about Miasma theory which dominated study of disease, for the last 50 years right in the face of contradictory evidencemrrgl
    • face of clear evidence to the contrary (contagion theory). Point is, 50 years, best biologists in the world laughed off evidencemrrgl
    • that (many) disease are caused by other living creatures, regarded it as unworthy of consideration
      mrrgl
    • that being said, that it can happen on a huge scale in a way that the people involved have no clue how stupid they're beingmrrgl
    • being... present scientific evidence, repeatable experiments, data, records... we've had about 50 years of organized research to prove mental/physical extended knowledge stuff, and I think that we can move forward at this pointmrrgl
    • move forward at this pointmrrgl
    • being... present scientific evidence, repeatable experiments, data, records... we've had about 50 years of organized research to prove mental/physical extended knowledge stuff, and I think that we can move forward at this pointmrrgl
    • organized research to prove mental/physical extended knowledge stuff, and I think that we can move forward at this pointmrrgl
    • Lol wut?monospaced
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