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Duppers

(28,247 posts)
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 04:44 AM Mar 2023

Science gets the job done; religion makes excuses. - PZ Myers

What has occurred over the course of the last few centuries is a growing (but by no means universal or certain) recognition that science gets the job done, while religion makes excuses.
Sometimes they are very pretty excuses that capture the imagination of the public, but ultimately, when you want to win a war or heal a dying child or get rich from a discovery or explore Antarctica [or space], you turn to science and reason, or you fail.

- PZ Myers, biology professor

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Science gets the job done; religion makes excuses. - PZ Myers (Original Post) Duppers Mar 2023 OP
The reason of Science versus the delusion of Religion MayReasonRule Mar 2023 #1
Or create a vaccine.... RussBLib Mar 2023 #2
Indeedy. Duppers Mar 2023 #3

RussBLib

(9,669 posts)
2. Or create a vaccine....
Sat Mar 11, 2023, 05:30 PM
Mar 2023

...or just rely on God to keep you safe, like so many have done. I wonder how many of those are dead from COVID?

Thousands of examples. It's a good thought experiment. The religious response is practically always, just pray, just pray harder.

Nothing fails like prayer.

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