As Soon As You Are Willing To Discard Observational Data Because It Conflicts With Religion, You Are Giving Up Any Hope Of Ever Really Understanding The Universe.

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As soon as you are willing to discard observational data because it conflicts
with religion, you are giving up any hope of ever really understanding the
universe. As soon as you pick religion as the touchstone of reality, then we
have to start discussing how one can demonstrate the correctness of one
religion over another when different *religions* disagree.
-- Wilson Heydt (whheydt@PacBell.COM)

The answer is simple: kill the heretics. History shows us that this is the
actual solution that competing religions apply -- trial by combat or trial by
ordeal. God is the final arbiter. What a sad waste of human potential it
has proven to be.
-- Paul Hager (hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)

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